Word: pit
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...these dominatrices and their two men launched into music that was described to us as “AC/DC+Guns N Roses+Blondie.” They were Halfcocked, an incredible metal rock band that single-handedly transformed the room from a communal rest stop into a musical mosh pit. The lead singer, Sarah Reitkopp, a great quickener of male pulses, thrashed and gyrated and had the audience on the edge of their seats as she led her fellow bandmates into the raucous “I Lied.” An irresistible combo of in-your-face sexuality...
Harvard Square is a magnet for young people in boring suburbs. The Pit people are only the most colorful example-they’re the flock of pierced, dyed, leather-clad youths next to the T stop...
...year-old burger joint that served up floats, fries and friendliness at all hours of the night. Yet, the Tasty has been closed for almost four years now, replaced by a renovated shopping complex that serves PacSun skater gear to spike-haired boys who hang in the pit and A&F posters to pre-pubescent girls on their way home from CRLS. High rents and corporate expansions have effaced a once student friendly neighborhood, replacing locally owned businesses loyal to the College crowd, with impersonal retail chains, office space and, as if they were needed, more banks...
People had been bugging Brooks for years to turn The Producers into a musical. But he resisted them all until 1998, when DreamWorks exec David Geffen talked him into giving it a try. "He was a pit bullterrier," says Brooks. "He was on my pants cuff, and I couldn't shake him." It helped that Brooks' movie career was in a slump (his last feature, 1995's Dracula: Dead and Loving It, had flopped) and that Geffen had--"unbeknownst to David Geffen, but knownst to me"--tapped into a longtime dream of Brooks': to write a Broadway score...
...quest that is the two-hours’ traffic of the Agassiz stage, in this semester’s offering by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players. (The stage, incidentally, being halfway covered and surrounded by blue plastic balls of the type one might find in the ball pit of a children’s gymnasium...