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Leaving for the holidays has made me really nostalgic for music that reminds me of home, so recently I’ve been listening to a lot of X, Tragedy, Tear It Up, Harum Scarum, Charles Bronson, D.R.I., Husker Du, and Atom Kinder. I’ve really gotten into Lightning Bolt over the past couple of weeks, and both Mecca Normal and Heroin have made more than a few appearances on my turntable. While I’m studying, I lean towards Murder by Death and Billie Holiday. In terms of shows, I recently saw (and loved) Lucky Dragons...
When I was in Cairo this summer, the Arab Street was busy. The bazaars bustled with shoppers and the bikers and pedestrians gave ground to trucks and scooters amidst the harum-scarum commerce practiced in stalls up and down the Old Islamic Quarter. On Friday hundreds of men and women streamed out of Al-Hussein Mosque, and while I sat and watched, drinking apple tea, a watermelon cart owner did a brisk business selling his wares to the parched masses...
...haven for waifs and strays (including, finally, Mrs. Bender). Quietly too she tends her struggling rooftop garden and keeps trying to talk Cyril into having a child. What can you do these days but make a warm place to nurture people -- and some small hopes for a less harum-scarum future? Perhaps pause to admire a brave and subtle film that knowingly explores ideas, even ideologies, but never dries up emotionally -- a film that never puts its characters' duties to metaphor ahead of their prime obligation, which is to live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity...
...conflicts of cultural politics may come and go, but the Moiseyev troupe is still stepping smartly through the pastoral frolic of Polyanka (a small meadow), the gentle gibes of the Old City Quadrille and the patriotic harum- scarum of Partisans, signature pieces all. Even the newer works on the program -- the dazzling, how-do-they-do-that At the Skating Rink and the wackily erotic Night on Bald Mountain -- show the same disciplined panache familiar to Americans from earlier visits...
Glance again to the right. These are rare photos, records of something no one expects to find in a high-speed, high-tech, high-action movie these days. They are pictures of a character acting not out of the dictates of a harum-scarum plot but because she is heeding the call of a vulnerable heart. Amazing! What will they think of next...