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...Harvard, after all--where every eager applicant is ranked on a 1600-point scale, a first-year's self-esteem depends on his Expos grade and a senior's life revolves around her thesis evaluation. Grades, scores and marks assume mythical proportions: a student poet has even posted an ode to the SAT on the Lamont Poetry Board, bragging...
...things never get boring. Moxy Fruvous mixes things up, offering a funny song about a poor guy whose girlfriend says, "Hon drop dead, I'd rather go to bed/with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.' Cuddle up with William S. Burroughs, Leave on the light for bell hooks." There's also an ode to the e-z recliner chair, "The Lazy Boy," and a cover the "Spiderman" song. These guys even top the diversity of Phish, with a song about Morpheus, Greek god of sleep--in French no less...
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...hired a new director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast. Baritone Franz Grundheber's tormented Wozzeck, soprano Kathryn Harries' ripe Marie, Graham Clark's strutting Captain and Norman Bailey's Mengelesque Doctor, all under the commanding baton of Richard Buckley, brought Berg's acerbic, atonal ode to the lumpenproletariat to vivid, expressionistic life...
...this," he says) -- notes shyly that the museum is history. "Sure, this isn't the Revolution or the Civil War. But it's still history. He has a story to tell. Hell, I have a story to tell. You have a story to tell." It's a modest ode to a common man -- a man lifted by circumstance from an ordinary stage to an extraordinary one. No museum can explain luck...