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...Neither was it the high point of the evening, as Lit saved their vaudeville-style showmanship for the encore. As A. Jay lit a pair of mallets ablaze with lighter fluid and proceeded to play drums as he was singing, Jeremy whipped out his trusty vibrator and made like Hendrix with the device on full blast. Did it enhance his playing? Hard to tell through all the distortion, but it made for a good show. That's what Lit was all about. While they didn't break any new ground, they put some showmanship back into rock and roll. Whether...

Author: By Alan Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flames, Sex Toys and Rock & Roll with Lit | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...directed by Englishman John Schlesinger, an Academy Award-winning veteran of such classic dramatic fare as Midnight Cowboy, Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Marathon Man. While I do admire his attempt to stretch, Schlesinger, so skillful at creating dramatic conflict, does not appear to be as comfortable with the lighter material, and interplay between the various supporting characters often appears a little forced. This is clearly Madonna and Everett's show, and the supporting characters are not given enough to do and seem to exist simply to transition gaps in the storyline. As Ben Cooper, Benjamin Bratt (formerly...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Superstar Carrying Gay Man's Baby! | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

While Byerly Hall officials are burning the midnight oil to evaluate 18,687 applications to the College, their counterparts at Yale will have a lighter workload this spring...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Receives Record Number of Applicants | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

Sameera Fazili '00, another class marshal and co-chair of the class day speaker committee, said O'Brien was chosen in part because the group hoped he could set a lighter tone for the day--in contrast to the more "somber" nature of Commencement...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O'Brien Will Be Class Day Speaker | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

...film-noir twist. Ovando was railroaded by the police, who had planted a gun to get the conviction. But no one believed Ovando until a dishonest cop, Rafael Perez, talked. Faced with 14 years in prison for stealing cocaine from a police lockup, Perez opted to bargain for a lighter sentence by delivering up his fellow officers. That was five months ago, and Perez has hardly stopped talking since. He has filled 2,000 transcript pages with accounts of cops faking evidence, testifying against innocent people and generally acting like criminals themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A.'s Bandits in Blue | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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