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...captivating vocals work so well that the music buries itself in the listener’s psyche. Each plaintive echo, new texture and looping rhythm sounds like a natural extension of the brain’s synapses. For all its arty abstractions, Neon Golden reaches the sublime without being pompous or untouchable in the least...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

...singers is Cinderella herself, played by the stellar Lara M. Hirner ’04, whose clear voice floats effortlessly, not to mention accurately, from low note to high note—and hits every emotional note in between. Patrick J. Bradley ’05 makes a lanky, pompous and more humorous than realistic stepfather Don Magnifico, while a hilariously flamboyant Oussama Zahr ’04 plays Dandini, the Prince’s valet—or “Prince-for-a-day,” as he calls himself. The two stepsisters (Allison C. Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opera Review | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

What are you hoping will happen on this date? He will say “thank you” when the waiter brings us food. I don’t like pompous assholes...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli and Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

There are two great things about reviewing a romance novel. One is that you don't have to be worried about giving away the ending. Even though Susannah Ballister is stubborn and not conventionally pretty and the Earl of Renminster is stiff and pompous, I will tell you right now: they hook up. Here's the other great thing about reviewing romance novels: people actually read them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Romance | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...world is used to North Korea’s lunacy. We have heard enough of its pompous threats and bizarre ways to determine with great confidence that the North is an economic and psychological basket case. Its neighbor South Korea, on the other hand, has been as sensible as the North is senseless, embracing capitalism and democracy, technology and internationalism, all underwritten by a security guarantee courtesy of the United States. So it is easily the second most disturbing part of the current North Korea crisis, after the prospect of a growing nuclear arsenal in the hands of the world?...

Author: By Ebon Y. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boycott South Korea | 1/17/2003 | See Source »

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