Word: shout-out
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Whether you know his “Candide” by heart, love his lyrics to “West Side Story,” or just know his name from its shout-out in R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” nearly everyone has some association to Leonard Bernstein ’39 and something to learn from next month’s “Leonard Bernstein: Boston to Broadway” festival. This former Glee Clubber’s life...
...hover-scooters go on sale at Target. So Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick Push,” an ode to the essential motions of the sport, already has the chips stacked in its favor. Fiasco starts the video, as all must, with a shout-out to his homies, but what follows isn’t the standard booty-shaking fare. It’s pleasantly low-key; clips spliced out of skateboarding home videos, wide shots of grungy urban blocks, and throughout it all, Lupe himself dipping about amicably. Half the pleasure is in seeing...
...want to start this column with a shout-out to a small and oft-ignored subset of my readers. I don’t mean residents of Pfoho or my aunts down in New Jersey, though I’m glad they’re reading too. Instead, I want to acknowledge my as-of-this-writing-unborn grandchildren. I want to do this because it occurred to me recently that some day, as my distant kin are sitting in their dorm rooms in Allston looking out onto their gorgeous new student center (or, heaven forbid, envying it from somewhere...
...mainland returned the love. The state-run China Daily called Lee "the pride of the Chinese people all over the world" and "the glory of Chinese cinematic talent." But it ignored the fact that Lee was born and raised in Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province. Lee's shout-out to his fellow Taiwanese was excised from the mainland broadcast of the Oscars?as was a speech on gay love, which is widely stigmatized in China. While Beijing hasn't allowed the film to be distributed, curious Chinese are in luck: thanks to rampant piracy on the mainland, illicit...
...elected HRO President Chrix E. Finne ’07, began the evening by introducing President Emeritus James “Jimbo” F. Collins ’06, and extending a jovial welcome to the junior parents in the audience. A junior himself, Finne made a special shout-out to his own mother, setting the tone for the concert’s family-friendly atmosphere. Respighi’s “Pines of Rome,” led by assistant conductor S. Andrew “Drew” Schroeder, opened the program with a successful depiction...