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...more than engaging enough. “The Jimmy Choos” also straddles the line between pop past and present, channeling the sunny beach sound and lyrical levity of the Beach Boys. More mainstream than the aforementioned gems, the song adeptly combines all the electronic glitz of modern pop tracks with dated but appropriate melodic riffs from Drummey and company. Standout tracks like “C’mon (On My Own)” and breakout single “She Loves Everybody” don’t quite fit the modern/retro bill of much...
...almost as analogous pairs. The principle couple is Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb, and his wife, who in this play is called Eurydice. Both are dying and reflecting on their youth. Another story involves a Biblical Adam and Eve, echoed by a modern Adam, a painter, and Eve, his lover and one of Feynman’s students. The final thread involves the mythical Orpheus and Eurydice. Through these couples, the play expresses the laws of physics and the intangible, dual themes of death and passionate love. As the play progresses, the characters move...
...Portrait Collection, the bulk of which was donated in the early 20th century by Evert J. Wendell 1882, spans the ages, from 16th century engravings to 1920s photographs. Objects in the collection range from engravings of French military uniforms to an entire set of cigarette boxing cards, equivalent to modern-day trading cards. On top of leading to the discovery of new materials, the move has provided an opportunity for reorganization of the collection. Materials that have sat in files and drawers are now being catalogued in HOLLIS and VIA (Visual Information Access) for the first time. Japanese albums containing...
...releases of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” and John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” the world of modern jazz changed forever. Fifty years later, Harvard University continued the tradition of these modern jazz legends last Saturday by honoring drummer Roy Haynes as the 2009 Jazz Master in Residence at Harvard University in “Cracklin’ with Roy—Honoring Roy Haynes.” Harvard...
...students and faculty at Baghdad University and the University of Science and Technology and mingled with U.S. officials at the embassy compound. They even got a tour of the famed Iraqi National Museum, where some in the group saw similarities between the early innovations etched on Sumerian tablets and modern forms of communication such as real-time jottings on Twitter...