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Aside from the showmanship, Poem Rocket had some experimental musical moments as well. At one point, the bassist took a drum stick and rubbed it along her bass strings, giving off a fuzzy hum that sounded not too bad. But their ultimate claim to fame lay with their spectacle of a guitarist...

Author: By Adam J. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big Fish, Big (Bardo) Pond | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...content to merely lay down the groove and the ridiculous innuendo, Beck punctuates these tunes with seemingly incongruent sections. The chorus of "Milk and Honey" is radio-worthy arena rock; "Sexx Laws" breaks for a synthesizer-slide guitar-banjo trio. Yes, a banjo. This would seem to be either an odd attempt at musical novelty or a drug-inspired venture into self-indulgence. But, like the rest of Midnite Vultures, the banjo works, and brilliantly...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Preview: beck's new midnite vultures | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...roots of this problem--like Harvard's difficulties hiring women at the same high levels--lay in the demographics of academia in general and Harvard's tenured faculty in particular...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Positions At Top Still Have Few Minorities | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

...auteur faced a packed house at the Toronto Film Festival and smiled. "We're here tonight," Kevin Smith said, "and lightning has not struck the building. So I guess it's O.K. with the Lord." Smith, 29, had endured a rough six months, ever since the Catholic League, a lay group with 350,000 members and an intimidating letterhead, had pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop Dogma, Smith's rambunctious comedy about God, faith and a monster made of poop. Smith was able to make his movie freely, but if the protesters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can God Take A Joke? | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

TRAINING ROSES Many parents love to garden. Most kids enjoy model trains. And now these two pursuits are merging in a hot family hobby imported from Britain: garden railroading. Aficionados lay tracks and carve tunnels through their flower beds and hedges. One measure of the trend: circulation of Garden Railways magazine has doubled to 36,000 in the past three years. The train kits begin at $150. Curious? Check out www2.gardenrailways.com/gr/ or www.largescale.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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