Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even harder to tell how to take what happens next: Iggy and his flunkies play "Raw Power," letting loose enthusiasm genuine and copious. Hard to criticize Iggy performing one of his great songs, and performing it pretty well. And there's the problem, I think. When Iggy was in the Stooges--before they became VH-1 "Behind the Music" material--the Stooges meant something. Sure they were a buncha high school drop-out glue-sniffing losers who made a hellacious garage noise with instruments they could barely play, but they had something to say. Basically: "screw you, I am human...
...Iggy now is "Behind the Music." So now Iggy's on stage and 50 and performing the same songs he was then. Sure, the band's lousy and thrusts every single great song they perform through a meat grinder which turns'em into generic hard rock, but still: "Raw Power," "Search and Destroy," "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "No Fun," "T.V. Eye," "Lust for Life," "The Passenger," "I Got a Right"--I'd watch him play these songs dead, they're so good...
...many ways, the dinner is a model for the show itself. The show is heavily infused with the (slightly clichd) flower-power flavor of the '60s and '70s (the era in which it was written): it's brash, it's carefree--make love, not theater. The problem is that everyone's so busy having fun in the show, Jesus' message sometimes get lost in the fuss. This is best emblematized in the twelve self-proclaimed Jesus "groupies." (The apostles are: Ari K. Appel '03, Stefan H. Atkinson '03, Brian J. Averell '02, Thomas N. Blodgett '01, Adam V. Kline...
...full of sugar and spice and everything nice. But Rozema has taken Fanny to new heights by giving her a boldness and sauciness which the director seems to fashion after Jane Austen herself--Austen in all her fierce humanity, her devastating wit, and her deep-seated belief in the power of love between two people...
...Dartmouth is a physical, bump-and-grind team," Shewchuk said. "We're more of a fast-skating team so we're just going to chip away at them. Hopefully we can do what we did in the ECACs last year, get on the power play and dismantle them piece by piece...