Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Andrea Parker does, I believe we can work something out. In any case, you really have no choise but to work something out with someone as brazen as Parker. Unfazed by the mob-wide surge for skippy techno, she announced her hatred of Fatboy Slim to the media (market self-sabotage--how will the masses relate?). Just as untimid in her work, she had Depeche Mode, Lamb, the Orb, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Steve Reich come under remixing at her hands before she began work on Kiss My Arp, her full-length debut. A session vocalist and classically trained cellist, Parker...
...fast beats, dance rhythms and excellent use of electric guitar. (Or, as Jones calls it, "'I Want You" on an adrenaline rush.") It also has clever lines. My favorite: "I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you/I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem." Go Savage Garden! Down with Vogue...
...form of "Smile," in which Sam and Janet start off with sugary harmonies over a bouncing beat. Then the lyrics begin to take hold and things turn sour in a hurry. "You lost your health/Never had no wealth/So tighten up your belt/As you gather dust on some self." Coomes has gained a reputation among indie-pop circles for writing nihilistic lyrics that make the script for "Fight Club" read like a kids' book. The song concludes with the moral of the story: "Others have it worse/So smile/It's not so bad." Somehow, Sam doesn't seem convinced...
CityStep offers Cambridge elementary school students the opportunity to learn team cooperation and build self-confidence as well as to see the benefits of an arts education and gain performance skills in a non-competitive environment. The curriculum begins by building trust and cooperation between students and teachers, moves on to develop dance skills and finally aims to create an original student-choreographed dance which is performed at the annual CityStep show...
...agreement comes after a year-and-a-half of negotiations between the two universities and the British government, which hopes the program will become self-sufficient after five years...