Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Activism. After hitting rock-bottom in returning grapes to the dining halls and rejecting a "political" role for the Undergraduate Council, the student body seems to be reawakening to the need for activism. The living wage movement has real momentum, Harvard has begun to listen on sweat-shop reform and progressives are making noise again on the council, despite the backward vote on the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Verdict: Better...
...Harvard is like a home to me," Sneddon said. "I really structured my value system here and I'd listen to anything [Cleary] said. Right now, I'm the coach at Union...
...weeks to buy tickets for Episode 1--The Phantom Menace, I had to meet them. Weren't they already as sick of the movie as I was? Did they not know there was a Star Wars cookbook out that had a recipe for "Boba Fett-uccine"? How could they listen to George Lucas tell yet another interviewer that although we have progressed technologically as a race, we have not evolved emotionally. We haven't evolved emotionally, George? You're a 54-year-old man making a movie about a bad guy named "Darth Maul." Compared to Lucas, I'm John...
...ballads, my mostly wordless, atonal compositions that require fewer than three chords. To call them "songs" would probably be too generous. They have no sharp beginning, and I stop whenever my fingers start to hurt or I get too sleepy. If you walk down Dewolfe Street late at night, listen carefully for an off-key strumming coming from a window high above you. Chances...
...need of a good laugh, listen in on some of the arguments between Trekkers and Lucasites. I've heard everything from "the Enterprise can kick the crap out of those dinky Star Destroyers" to "Worf isn't half the man Chewbacca is." Pretty silly stuff, but again, fans have to fight for the honor of their faves...