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...groove of each song, demonstrating the type of communication you’d expect from a polished jazz combo. As a result, rhythm becomes a dramatic device, one that clearly delineates the border between honest and sarcastic lyrics. Nowhere is this more true than on “Rough Gem.” The first two verses employ the metaphor of diamond mining to illustrate the the dogged pursuit of a dream. Aptly named singer Diamond assumes the voice of that fantasy, suggesting that “you can scoop out my brain, shape it into an ear and then...
...homeschooled student who hiked with her on a month-long outdoor program she led with a group of seven other teenagers.She says the boy had trouble reconciling new viewpoints with the values he had been taught at home.“Socially, as a teenager, he had a really rough time,” according to San Antonio. She says the boy sought friendships, but he found that his peers held values that were drastically different from his own family’s. “And this really presented a conflict for him,” San Antonio says.Some...
...impressively executed a technically difficult routine. The entire group gave a clean, lively, and sophisticated performance—a perfect ending. The first two pieces of “Pointe/Counterpointe” gave an unrepresentative account of the evening as a whole. Despite a rough beginning, the HBC gave a stellar performance that left both the dancers and audience members enthusiastic for classical and contemporary ballet. The show will run again on April 28 at the Harvard Dance Center. —Reviewer Giselle Barcia can be reached at gbarcia@fas.harvard.edu
When Franks' rough draft first arrived at the Pentagon nearly a year ago, the plan was to invade Iraq from Kuwait in the south, from Turkey in the north and from Jordan in the west. Rumsfeld couldn't shake the notion that it seemed too familiar. He felt that the U.S. would face a far weaker Iraqi army than the one it crushed 12 years ago--and has bombed incessantly for the past five years. "Despite being told not to do it, [Franks] basically sent up a revised Gulf War I plan. Rumsfeld couldn't believe it," says a senior...
...last gasp of a dying generation of anti-rock philistines? Hardly. As recently as this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, NFL planners arranged with the Stones beforehand to mute their microphones on “inappropriate” parts of their hits “Rough Justice” and “Start Me Up.” After inadvertently glimpsing part of a grown woman’s nipple two years ago, this country wasn’t taking any chances...