Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scandal is an express tour of the Profumo affair that moves with a pop historian's revisionist swagger and plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll. Taking a cue from Asquith's Pygmalion, the film casts Ward (John Hurt) as an aristocratic makeover artist, discovering Keeler (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) in the fetid anonymity of a Soho strip club and turning her into a star of the jet-set slumming circuit. Pluck your eyebrows, Christine. Wet your lips. Come over and say hi to Jack Profumo...
Hair, the 60s rock musical about a group of hippies who drop everything from acid to their clothing takes the stage at the Agassiz theater for a two week run. With upbeat music and dancing, the performance should be an energetic look at the era in which so many of us were born but have not experienced...
...lines of unequal lengths and correspondingly non-correspondent meters. The instrumental bridge is a string quartet; the coda is also counched in lush strings, with Askew contributing a haunting, wordless "Madame Butterfly" type aria. This segues into an instrumental, "Acropolis Now," which begins promisingly as a hybrid between '80s rock and Greek folk guitar, but it begins to maunder soon after and degenerates into a fairly close approximation of a jam session by a forgotten, early '70s band. The side closes with the title track, which reverses the problems of the opening cut; a suitably anthemic chorus is surrounded...
Bucknell had defeated Queens by four points earlier in the season. This meant that the Crimson had to defeat Queens by four points or more to be seeded number two behind Slippery Rock...
...power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation 1 is able to execute more than 12 million instructions a second. The computer also comes with a built-in audio system that can record and play back sounds ranging from voice mail to rock 'n' roll...