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...What is most arresting about the Conservatory’s show, however, is its spectacular musical talent. Berg and Tishfield give especially stellar performances. As Joe, a dockworker on the boat, Nicholas Christopher, Jr. delivers a stunningly noteworthy performance of the musical’s leitmotif, “Ol?? Man River.” His surprisingly crisp and sonorous baritone (surprising because Christopher is of a slight build) wholly conveys the soulful resignation of the song’s pith. The pit orchestra also impresses, notably flaunting the student talent of the Boston Conservatory. Without missing...
...Ol?? Jack Harvard and his Puritan scumbag brosephs came to this country to get away from people like us and have tried to keep us out ever since. NEWS FLASH: we’re back! Assholes. We brought our swarthy demeanor and our bocce balls. Get used to it. To these ol?? bluebloods, anyone who doesn’t get a boner at the mention of Plymouth Rock doesn’t belong in this country. NEWS FLASH: This is a melting pot, or a salad, or a taco salad, or a Cobb salad...
...good as the free tours—Well, the three lies are, first, there aren’t just three lies. Second, your friends from Dorm Crew will clean your bathroom every two weeks. Three, you will “take advantage of” Boston all the time. Ol?? Beantown! So many other fun cool teens. What a city. Ol?? Beantown! Four, of course you’ll get a job. You’re the most elite students in the country. Five, the girls here are smoke shows. The cat’s pajamas...
...exactly what is lacking on the less successful tracks. The project at times gets caught up in its own concept—picking unexpected groups of artists out of sheer caprice without regard for their combined sound. As delightful as it is to imagine Karen O hanging out with Ol?? Dirty Bastard—may he rest in peace—her distinctive vocals on “Strange Enough” are sorely out of place next to a sampled ODB verse about his childhood. “Feelin’ clean, I was only 13 / With...
...minutes obviously go to Prof. Michael Sandel and his attempts to redeem his Joe Camel points and finally get the leather jacket he’s been pining for—what utility! Over in Littauer, Prof. Greg Mankiw still manages to rack up several hours on the ol?? “electronic” banana with vaunted capitalist Scrooge McDuck...