Word: norcott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...starting to play more cohesively as a team," co-captain Daryl Norcott said. "We have a couple of graduate-school players who still have a year or two of eligibility and their experience has helped...
...crowds paraded out of the Dunster dining hall, quivering with funk aftershocks, it was obvious that the Soulful Light, "conceptualized, visualized, and realized" by Norcott had reached the multitudes. Amen...
...mounted as Peter Stepek, a.k.a. Jedi Master Miracle Man, took the microphone at the end of "Funkmove" and announced the entrance of the bearer of a "sublime message to the people," the "Missionary Monk Messiah." To no one's surprise, the "Monk" turned out to be none other than Norcott. Famed for his rubber wranglings with the Harvard Police over a piece of poultry with sentimental value, the Chicken Man was most definitely a Funky Chicken Man on this particular night...
Combining James Brown dance moves with a classic late 70s aesthetic, Norcott was quite the Funk Monk. He has a commanding stage presence, cool sunglasses, and can throw a frisbee the length of the Dunster dining hall with the flick of a wrist. Norcott spoke lines of deep meaning; such rhymes as "I'm just a man with soulful intentions, I've crossed the bridge to unmistaken conventions" deserve painstaking exegesis to unlock their message for a contemporary audience...
...sound was standard funk, with grinding grooves punctuated by horn blasts and organ riffs and Norcott in call-and-response with his backup singers. But standard funk, by its very funkiness, makes for a booty-shaking jam. Even Funkistopholes, played by Seth Mnookin, the vanquished evil anti-funk, was witnessed in the audience grooving to the tunes of his nemesis...