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...seemingly endless line of guitars, including a mutant hybrid monster that fused the bodies of a standard six-string guitar, a lute and a zither. While Metheny adeptly negotiated his way through a minefield of special effects pedals, the sheer variety of guitars he handled bordered on sensory overload. To mix textures while keeping musical flow on “As It Is,” he moved from a guitar strapped to a stand to one slung over his back. He then swapped that for another that was a guitar trying to sound like an electric keyboard ?trying...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaking of Metheny | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

Blogs have become the supreme information filter, replacing in function the ineffective software that was supposed to help us avoid information overload by supplying us only with information we want. Such software is imprecise, but find a blogger, you like and you will almost always find interesting the links and posts he makes to his blog. Taken together, blogs represent a new addition to the media landscape, filtering the wheat from the chaff, elevating marginal issues to national importance and calling the mistakes of the mainstream media with unrelenting scrutiny (Ira Stoll ’94, former President...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, | Title: Why My Column Doesn’t Matter | 4/3/2002 | See Source »

Coloring the eclectic collection of art was a general exuberance and youthful sense of experimentation. Yet the general barrage of hip and trendy art devolved into a sensory overload where innovation and freshness in particular works merged into an indistinguishable muddle—a kind of visual white noise. In their seemingly desperate efforts not to blend in, many...

Author: By Sarah R. Lehrer–graiwer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Old Favorites and New Pioneers: New York Art | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

There’s also the concern of women-theater-overload. Women In Color and the Vagina Monologues both share a theater (the Agassiz), a production company (Athena) and the same weekend...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female and Minority Issues Find Stage Outlet | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

...fact, Ba’al, masterfully portrayed by David Modigliani ’02, first appears writhing on a tavern floor, devouring scraps of bread that the ballim throw at him. The opening scene’s sensory overload also hints at Ba’al later depravity, including his insatiable desire for wine and women...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brecht’s ‘Ba’al’ Lights Up the Loeb Ex | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

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