Word: musicalities
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...music was pounding as sweaty bodies—including those of 10 Harvard students out for a night of Parisian revelry—rubbed up against each other, and, for the first time since seventh grade, I was shaking my hips to the beat of Will Smith’s “Miami.” For the most part, it was a pretty average night out in Paris. This time, though, we were not at a pricey discothèque but at a local firehouse, which was hosting an annual Bal des Pompiers party...
...secret that Europeans know how to party. Countless American college students trek to the old continent every summer equipped with only a backpack as they hop from city to city to booze it up in multi-level nightclubs submerged in the drumming rhythms of techno music and pass out the next day in city caf?...
...FIERY, 14-minute live performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1961, banjo-playing singer-songwriter Tommy Makem, with his bandmates the Clancy Brothers, had catapulted Irish folk music into the mainstream. By infusing tunes like Four Green Fields and Gentle Annie with a raw, modern energy, the charismatic baritone became one of the biggest stars of the '60s folk revival. Among his fans: Bob Dylan, John Hammond and John F. Kennedy, who in 1963 asked the group to play at the White House. Makem was 74 and had cancer...
...this year in Madison Square Garden." At a town-hall forum held at Northern Iowa Area Community College (NIACC), he marveled, "There's a city in New York called Nyack! Spelled differently..." Upon learning that composer Meredith Willson grew up in Mason City, Giuliani immediately made the connection: "The Music Man was on Broadway a long time." Most familiar of all is Iowa's tradition of retail politics, he said outside a Webster City diner called Coney's Plus (yep, just like the island). "This," declared Giuliani, "is the way you campaign in New York City...
...keeping themselves real, they've also marginalized themselves," says P.T. Black, a marketing consultant who follows trends in China. "People don't understand why you wouldn't want to be mainstream." Because consumerism is still quite new here, the true punk lifestyle, beyond the loud music and crazy hair, enjoys limited appeal. Even Ma will have to make his peace with the commercial world - a student of stage design, he plans to pursue a career outside his biking. "In this society," he says, "there's no way for me to live like this...