Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...departure from the smoothly orchestrated Skylarking. Instead of presenting gently coasting instrumentation, the group returns to the hard-hitting style of 1984's The Big Express and its earlier albums. Oranges and Lemons features a fair number of XTC's traditional energetic social statements, although it does show a suspicious tendency toward bouncy, top-40ish love songs and includes, not surprisingly, one or two utter failures...
...album starts off strongly with a dose of XTC's typical weirdness in "Garden of Earthly Delights." Dave Gregory's electric guitar adds an Arabian Nights effect above a barrage of tambourines, drums, and other percussion. Partridge's lyrics show a rare optimistic view of life ("This is your life and you be what you want to be. This is your life and you try it all,") while his voice stretches from one end of the scale to the other in a carefree lesson of the world's goodness...
...kiss-in" staged in the Mather dining hall bythe student group Defeat Homophobia and theposting of pink triangles in students' windows asa show of solidarity with the gay community havecaused widespread debate...
...which I heard expressed at an open forum provided by the Mather House masters and reactions such as "Harvard Faggots Die" written on a blackboard in Mather late at night. I became even more interested when many students at Mather began to display pink triangles in their windows to show support for the bisexual, gay and lesbian community, and I hoped to use the energy of the discussion at Mather as momentum to create a campus-wide dialogue on the rights of bisexual, gay and lesbian students...
Lotte Van de Pol--a noted art historian from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland--presented a slide-show with paintings of bordello scenes and addressed the artistic implications of those paintings before an audience of about 40 people at Boylston Hall...