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...Saturday, Harvard again fell behind in the second half. This time, however, the Crimson seemed to learn its lesson and started its comeback sooner, finally tying the game on a last-second, fade-away, seemingly desperation 16-footer by sophomore Tim Hill. Lavietes Pavilion was rockin' and rollin', and Harvard pulled away to a double-digit lead in overtime...
...songs can't be compared with the originals; for that you'd have to be 15 again, your ear soldered to an AM radio in the urgent expectation that the next 3-min. jingle would explain and rectify your life. But the movies' songs--with their close-rockin' guitars, shivering tambourines and wall-of-sound studio skills--have a musical validity. Thirty years from now, they could be a new generation's invisible friends...
...rarely watches a congressional filibuster on C-SPAN and thinks--hey, add a guitar lick and this would make a really rockin' song. Still, politics, or at least social commentary, can add an invigorating edge to pop music, and it's something too many musicians shy away from. What are they afraid of? Doesn't singing for the umpteenth time some ditty about a troublesome lover or adolescent angst get a little tired after a while...
Produced by Noah Helman '98 and directed by Scott Brown, "Godspell" is a rockin' 1970s romp through the Gospel of St. Matthew. Part Brady Bunch, part Jim and Tammy Faye, the musical is a colorful, energetic, secularized depiction of Biblical parables strung together with lively song-and-dance numbers...
What's a Loveless woman to do? Simple: stare back at the man who done her wrong and give him caustic advice. The album's first single, a cool Matraca Berg easy-rockin' plaint, says it tartly: "You can feel bad if it makes you feel better." That's the '90s cad for you. He'll take a little short-term guilt--and instant absolution from the woman he's left in the dust...