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...hasty. The video for lead single “Chips Ahoy!” plays up the band’s loserish appearances knowingly but not affectedly. And it’s hilarious—Finn plays a TV news anchorman unable to land an interview with his uninterested paramour??but it’s also heartbreaking, since every other member of the band gets with the girl. It’s 70s, with the square-frame glasses and garish striped ties, but the boys wear ’em with irony suitable for the oughts. The song...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: The Hold Steady | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow. (Penguin Books, 2004). Hamilton paid off his paramour??s husband so the fling could go on. And when faced with charges of adultery, he ‘fessed up without haggling over the meaning of the word ‘is.’ Perhaps the most dapper man to ever hold the position of Treasury secretary—at least until Larry Summers...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kristina M. Moore, Will B. Payne, Abe J. Riesman, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Executive Decisions | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...borrow a word from Lowell’s volume, Carson is the difficult “paramour?? who returns now, five years overdue. Her style, though unsettling and unseen for half a decade except in a few journals, becomes familiar as “Decreation” unfolds in lamentable seriousness, producing a book that intimates its few faults and overwhelms all of its readers’ objections...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Decreation’ Offers Slice of Anne Carson | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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