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Jarvis, who coached Patrick Ewing when the latter played his high school ball up the street at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, is the perfect antithesis of his predecessor, the bumbling, irate Fran Fraschilla, who was canned after the Storm lost its NCAA opener last year to Detroit...
...with the rendition of abstractly idealized form, derived from Greco-Roman statuary. Other and lesser artists who had been through David's teaching studio believed it did, and had fine theories to support their belief. But Ingres had a horror of theory, and like his 17th century predecessor Nicolas Poussin, he was much more interested in flesh than in marble...
...Dylan, a legend himself, declared that Elvis "steps from the pages" of the predecessor to this book, Last Train to Memphis, and much the same can be said of this one. The most impressive quality of this book is Guralnick's ability to depict Elvis' life and detach the real person, a flawed yet well-intentioned human being, from the frozen images that make up his legend. The main flaw of this book is not one of flawed research but of excessive enthusiasm; he tells the reader more of Elvis' "sad story" than he or she may want to know...
...fair, Colin James, advertised as the "New Swing Pioneer," cannot be accused of simply seizing on the current popularity of swing music for sheer profit; the predecessor to this well-timed sequel appeared way back in 1993. That said, the ennui-inducing contents of this album seem to imply just such a fad-inspired rush job. James and his "Little Big Band" seen to be unsure whether they want to imitate the actual 1940's style or create a "New Swing" genre. The result is an album in which most of the songs have the false, synthetic quality of badly...
While Cellucci and his predecessor, William F. Weld '66, were both death penalty advocates and the State Senate supported the measure, the House deadlocked on a 80-80 vote after Rep. John Slattery (D-Peabody) voted against the measure at the last minute...