Word: singed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deluxe pens, not all is lost. Fun can come when some students resort to antics for attention. Every semester, a handful of students manipulate the classroom into an arena for the entertainment of others. Several Harvard student organizations have maximized their visibility this way. While a cappella groups often sing at the start of a lecture to plug an upcoming jam, more offbeat spectacles have taken place. In December, the Phoenix S.K. final club sent its new members to Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres" to show off their legs and moves while dancing to Stravinsky...
Looking back, looking back. Hill grew up in South Orange, N.J.; her father was a management consultant, her mother a grade-school English teacher. From an early age, Lauryn (she has an elder brother Malaney) was into singing and performing. When she was in middle school, she was invited to sing the national anthem at a high school basketball game. "People went wild," says LuElle Walker-Peniston, Hill's guidance counselor at Columbia High School. "I don't think we had a winning team, but she was inspiring." Fans liked her rendition so much that recordings of it were played...
...fractious nostalgia trip to make a few quid and see if the flame still burns. This retro comedy, cannily written by The Commitments' Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, gives such fine British actors as Bill Nighy, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail and Bruce Robinson the chance to strut, scowl, sing some jaunty tunes (by '70s survivors Mick Jones, Steve Dagger and Jeff Lynne) and define what it means to be mates in a middle age the rockers never thought they'd live to see. Some of the laughs are too easy, but there are lots of them...
Performances ranged from the serious to the light-hearted. White-Peppers presented a selection from a musical written by Derrick N. Ashong '97-'98, Songs We Can't Sing. Black Students Association Vice President Jason B. Phillips '99 did a comedy routine, poking fun at Ally McBeal, Oprah Winfrey and shopping period...
...music. In interviews, Backstreet and 'N Sync members stress the centrality of "their" music. As Pearlman says, "You have to be able to sing first or it doesn't matter how good-looking you are." The two groups share some of the same songwriters and producers, and both acts owe their most immediate debt to the somewhat more sophisticated R.-and-B. harmonizing of Boyz II Men. The hits are catchy, even compelling, but it's hard, once a girl has grown breasts, to make it through a whole album's worth; then again, to be fair, the same...