Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 mistook astrology for astronomy, Kirshner seems incredulous at first. In an e-mail, Lewis explained to undergraduates that joint concentrations should combine fields that are at least somewhat related to one another, and as an example of a difficult combination, he cited astrology and music...
...first defending Lewis, saying he must have been too busy to proofread, Kirshner then laughs and says, "Well, I agree... I think astrology and music is a bad combination." He continues, "I think cosmology and cosmetology get confused even more. Here's a quick tip: If you want to have unwanted hair removed, go to a cosme-tol-ogist, not a cosmologist. If you wanted unwanted dark matter removed, that's a different story...
...back even a hundred years ago, and if you wanted to listen to music, the only way you could listen to music was if you were listening to somebody else make music, and therefore with other people. You couldn't get entertained alone, as a technical matter...
...show; perhaps I'm so enamoured with it because it feels less like traditional television and more like a movie short. The camerawork and set design are an unpredictable mix of slick sophistication and base grittiness. Main characters are perpetually dressed in impeccable Armani suits, the background music is of epic quality, and the plotlines are complex and multi-layered. At the same time, the aforementioned campiness has a tendency to descend to an almost amateurish level. The opening sequence, which hasn't changed since the show began, looks like it was pasted together in a high school video class...
...incredible whistler. "He had braces all throughout college, and he has this special whistling technique that's different from what everyone else uses. We were all worried that he wouldn't be able to do it once he got the braces off, but he could." He performs with music-minus-one, which involves whistling over classical recordings with the solo instrument removed. "He whistled at my wedding this summer," Vaux reveals. But because of some problem with the sound system, he had to whistle a Bach piece a cappella. "He did it just right, but without the accompaniment...