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...Disney cartoon, Ichabod Crane is a thin, lanky schoolteacher with romantic designs on a local landowner's daughter, Katrina Van Tassel. In Crane's way is Brom Van Brunt, a big lug who frightens Crane with a story about the Headless Horseman--a rumored supernatural denizen known for his penchant for swiping the heads of the locals. Crane has an encounter with this spirit at the end of the story, but the narrator makes it seem very likely that the whole thing was just a gag by Van Brunt that worked a little too well...
Maybe. But senior forward Hilary Witt (27, 24) has also played a major role in Northeastern's recent success. Witt's penchant for timely goals made her a Kazmaier nominee last season, and she should lead the Husky offense again...
Being endowed with an overactive imagination and penchant towards over-dramatization might have led to an over-glorification of Frisell's one-night stint in Davis Square. But this is an untestable hypothesis. Frisell's music was perhaps the most pure that one could witness. Pure, but not random or delineated by mere aural frequencies; rather, one can be confident that whatever pleasure derived from Frisell's work is not contingent on some distorted desire for the eclectic or youthful psychological echoes. Even through the shadowy progressions of "Blues for Los Angeles," there was no ounce of offense. Frisell never...
...There were recognizable melodies and sinuous bass-lines, beats to groove to and even a little harmony. Even better, the songs were pretty innovative and incredibly upbeat. This was the most aggressively happy hip-hop ever, with song titles like "Feelin' Alright" and "Beautiful Day?" Len also has a penchant for the robotic-voice vocoder effect, and they made use of it several times, invoking memories of New Wave...
President Jiang faces a tricky balancing act these days, made more so by the Clinton Administration's egregious failure to accept a World Trade Organization agreement in April. His speech to the FORTUNE forum included some hard-line words about Taiwan and about America's penchant to preach and meddle. "Every country has the right to choose the social system, ideology, economic system and path of development that suit its national conditions," he said. But the significant message he stressed in his talk was that economic and political liberalization would continue. "The Chinese people," he said, "will firmly and unswervingly...