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...Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah--are so good that Nelson resists the temptation to oversell them and returns to the effortless speak-singing that made his greatest hits so poignant. Best of all is a closing minor-key version of Amazing Grace; Nelson and Adams add an Animals-like organ to this most clichd of spirituals and take it on a trip to the House of the Rising...
...senior at Emerson, is one of these cast members. There is a big difference between telling a funny joke and being funny, being a source of humor rather than a conduit for it. As Richie, Barlowski’s humor came straight from the spleen (the funniest internal organ I can think of). As a result, “Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love”—a strange song that is mostly about puberty (disclaimer: I have no idea what this song is actually about)—is the show’s most joyful...
...vast cosmos; that all the hope and ingenuity in the world can’t create energy or use it without loss; that our species has existed for a tiny fraction of the history of the earth; that humans are primates; that the mind is the activity of an organ that runs by physiological processes; that there are methods for ascertaining the truth that can force us to conclusions which violate common sense, sometimes radically so at scales very large and very small; that precious and widely held beliefs, when subjected to empirical tests, are often cruelly falsified.I believe that...
...bone-marrow cells from a baboon-the first animal-to-human bone-marrow transplant-to boost his immune system. Though his body rejected the cells and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later banned such transplants, he used his visibility to fight on, successfully getting more doctors to perform organ transplants on AIDS patients, whose prognoses were often deemed too bleak to justify such surgery...
...Wine Madness” by Wu Tong, a member of the Silk Road Ensemble. Tong, a rock star in China with chart-toping vocals, was also the star of Tuesday’s performance. He stole the show whenever he sang or played his sheng—a mouth organ made of a ring of bamboo pipes, looking, as one audience member said, like “an organ and a church steeple put together.” The rehearsal ended with a composition by the modern Chinese musician Zhou Long, set to some Chinese poems about drinking too much...