Word: restless
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Born in Somerset, England, Wheeldon entered the Royal Ballet School at nine and started making up his own dances shortly thereafter. Hired by the Royal Ballet in 1991, he spent two restless years in the corps. Fascinated by the ballets of Balanchine, N.Y.C.B.'s founder, he left for New York City and took class with the company. "If I hadn't done that," he says, "I might still be back in London, standing on the side of the stage holding a tray." Instead, ballet master in chief Peter Martins, always on the lookout for promising young male dancers, offered...
...mystery had it all--whispers, desperation, even reincarnation. Just who was it that prodded the starchy and straight-laced Al Gore to pluck, of all people, Tony Coelho, an affable and genuinely scandalous party veteran, to seize control of the shaky Gore presidential campaign? Was it Bill Clinton, as restless as a sidelined Michael Jordan during play-off season, who had been muttering quietly to just about everyone for weeks that his buddy Al's campaign was a mess? Was it the President's killer fund raiser and old Coelho protege, Terry McAuliffe, who fretted daily into his cell phone...
...front of us are a pair of normal-looking guys in blue jeans and fleeces. One decides that he is restless. Unfortunately, there isn't much to do in midtown Manhattan at four in the morning. Fortunately, the one option that does exist is exotic dancing. Across the street an enticing neon sign announces "The Playpen." Our friend decides to check out the toddlers...
...realize that much of this disquisition must sound like hollow nostalgia. And I'm sure that many of you are chomping at the bit, anxious to experience college living. You'll get that chance soon enough. But, in the meantime, if you find yourself feeling restless, remember: The grass isn't always greener. For instance, here at Harvard, it's teal. Noah D. Oppenheim '00 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
Waits' first release on indie Epitaph Records is also his first new album in six years. Like his literary cousins Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski, he returns to the same down-and-outs and restless souls, this time with more rumble, kick and bluesy musings than barroom rasped ramblings. Hobo yowler "Cold Water" will rattle in your head for days. Quieter moments are searing, Waits' gravelly voice bending like an old tree under the blade of a pocketknife. To top it off, he spikes the album with oddities like "Eyeball Kid." On Mule Variations, the music pounds and the lyrics...