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...years later, Hill started singing a verse from “Something’s Coming” from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and reenacted his audition. As his voice began to swell, Hill suddenly stopped short of the refrain and motioned silently as if trying to grasp the words. “I completely forgot the words to the song,” he recalls. “It was pretty embarrassing. But more than embarrassing, it was a lesson that you need to know your song completely cold...
...nine months, documenting the process by video and preserving the blood. Hours after Shvarts’ press release, Yale University issued a statement calling her entire piece a “creative fiction.” The university alleges that before beginning her project, Shvarts had agreed to refrain from actually inseminating herself. In response, Shvarts defended her claim, calling the university’s statement “ultimately inaccurate” in an interview with the Yale Daily News. Discussion over the contentious alleged project persisted at Harvard throughout the weekend. “It was weird...
...counterintuitive to say the least. Back in 2001, when Claudio Del Vecchio, the son of an Italian eyeglasses magnate, was thinking about buying Brooks Brothers from the British retailer Marks & Spencer, the sales pitch included a familiar refrain: a new owner could close the Queens, N.Y., tie factory, move manufacturing overseas and save a ton of money. DelVecchio did buy the company, but he didn't close the factory. Instead, he plowed millions of dollars into improving it. Now every single Brooks tie, whether sold in Detroit, Milan or Dubai, starts there. "Of course we could go to China...
Glenn and current managing editor Paras D. Bhayani ’09 recently wrote a letter to the City Council, asking that the council refrain from renaming the street. Glenn said that while he is in favor of honoring Halberstam, he and other past and present Crimson reporters are very attached to the 14 Plympton St. address...
...swoons, with ethereal wails and flourishes interspersed between Auerbach’s explosive riffs and throaty bellow. “Lies” may be the most maturely-constructed song on the album; a dramatic, tumbling mood-piece, it feeds on the catharsis of Auerbach’s howling refrain, with Danger Mouse’s production giving the song space to swell, breathe, resolve, and disappear. Even so, the album’s conclusion, “Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be,” is its most startling and triumphant success. With...