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...started playing at house parties and worked its way to opening for Jurassic 5 at Amherst. “After the night was over one of the guys from Jurassic 5 gave me a pound and I have never felt cooler in my life,” said guitarist Alan J. Wilkis ’04. While the band’s lyrics touched on everything from sex to the cosmos, Rubin says that their music was partially a response to Harvard’s suppressive forces. “We were trying to terrorize our audience in a soothing...
...hours after dispatching that letter," Townsel told the committee, "my hell began. Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel--throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door and generally behaving like a madman ... Mr. Bolton then routinely visited [my hotel] to pound on the door and shout threats." Later, Townsel says, Bolton falsely told AID and other U.S. officials that she was under investigation for misuse of funds. Democrats and TIME have found witnesses to corroborate parts of Townsel's story. Republicans point out that she is a Democrat...
...remember the first days of the season,” Luff says. “You’d see 150-pound guys sitting in spandex with no shirt on in the boathouse and wonder how it’s going to happen this year...
...soldier on the road to Rome, the rough justice meted out to Nazi collaborators in France. These stinging images have become a first route of approach to understanding our era. Mydans' work also encompasses the famous faces of the age: Churchill, Truman, Nehru, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann and Ezra Pound. He caught them with an economy that satisfies the requirements of design and psychology in the same camera angle, as when he found the egg-shaped perimeter of Nikita Khrushchev's head sweeping to a comic climax in the dark hole of his open mouth...
...whisks, and even a cheese grater. They play this tableware with drumsticks, utensils, and their hands, creating a varied and loud beat while pretending to be at a restaurant. When dancers dressed as waitresses clear their places, grabbing the “instruments” away, the drummers just pound on the tables. Although the idea may seem reminiscent of the hit broadways show Stomp, the interspersion of this scene within the rest of the performance creates a show-stopping theatricality that sticks in the mind...