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...Talent Scouts was a competition of little-known singers getting the fragrance of national publicity (Patsy Cline was a contestant who became a star after appearing there). And Arthur Murray's Dance Party showcased the terpsichoreal skills of the dour impresario, his wife Katherine and a host of graceful semi-pros. From the talents displayed way back then came not only American Idol and Dancing With the Stars but their movie siblings, High School Musical and Take the Lead...
...Harvard Medical School—the first of its kind here at Harvard. Does that make his work a contradiction, or some kind of revolutionary synthesis?As with all aspects of Knep’s work, the answer depends on the day you experience it.Using a novel form of semi-interactive computer art, Knep (pronounced “Kuh-NEP”) has been at Harvard since the start of the academic year as an artist-in-residence through an unprecedented joint collaboration between the OFA’s Public Art Program and HMS’s Department of Systems...
...informing the business lobby in Washington, whipped through a draconian immigration bill that targeted the so-called "jobs magnet" - agribusiness, service sector, construction and other industries that eagerly, and often illegally, employ cheap, undocumented immigrant labor to cut costs. The law would have stripped business of much of its semi-skilled laborers by forcing undocumented workers to leave the country, would have jacked up fines on employers for hiring illegals and would have required businesses to check the identities of prospective hires with the Department of Homeland Security...
...Jacoby says excitedly as he examines the list.That plan doesn’t work out. The format for the battle is as improvised as the contestants’ flows. At the beginning of the show, seven rappers stand onstage. Four one-on-one rounds produced four semi-finalists, who then compete for the two final spots. Despite talk of a “losers’ bracket,” one never materializes.Darius P. Felton ’08, co-director of TDS, is more reserved about the upcoming battle for the radio station. WHRB had planned on airing portions...
...poetry in that—in doing something that is slightly absurd, but you take it really seriously,” he added. THE MINIATURISTSFor some, this publicity of this exhibit won’t be such a shock.George Bossarte has been well-known among some Cantabrigians for his semi-annual Erector set parties, which he has held since 1976, and which were once advertised as opportunities for “food, frolic, and the chance to act like a child with impunity.” So his submission to the exhibition—a display including his Erector blimp...