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...just a single win behind both Princeton and Columbia. Junior Jasmine McGlade went 9-2 for the epee squad—good enough for second place. In the individual portion of the event, however, McGlade reached the semifinals of the weapon. Nevertheless, she was ousted by silver medalist Meghan Phair of Cornell by a score of 15-9. McGlade herself rebounded against Jasjit Bhinder of Princeton to take home the silver medal. Next up for the Crimson are the NCAA Northeast Regional championships, which will be held at the Malkin Athletic Center next weekend. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...Power (aka Chan Marshall) has spent her career becoming one of the leaders of the female tortured singer-songwriter genre, laying claim to the crown held previously by Aimee Mann and Liz Phair. If Marshall was the queen, “The Greatest” will be remembered as her abdication—a movement into happier, if less fruitful, territory. The genre has traditionally espoused an ethic of independence, but for this dishonestly named album, she sought out help, moving to Memphis to record with a backing band filled with some of country music’s old-hands...
Trapped between these forms of Crow, she can only howl and attempt to create Liz Phair-esque feminist think-pop, but without the anger or the passion. Occasionally, her theatrics even approach parody of the genre itself...
Since Alanis cut her hair, Ani got married (to a guy, no less), and Liz Phair started screwing a younger man during X-Box breaks, the days of Lilith Fair have seemed over., but with the release of Fiona Apple’s new album “Extraordinary Machine,” I hoped that musical man-hating was back...
...Angry Woman Curser: “Divorce Song” by Liz Phair from Exile in Guyville; 2:03 into track. There are so many examples of excellent swearing on this disc, but my reluctance to use the obvious “Flower” shows how this fetish dives deeper than mere sex. Phair flings true bile here, finding no word better to substitute when listing her relationship grievances: “... you did the things you said were up to me, and then accused me of trying to fuck it up.” She opts...