Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case you were wondering, here's as vivid a definition of saloon songs as you're likely to find: "[They're] the ones the fellows sing in a dimly lighted club at about 2 o'clock in the morning, when everybody's gassed. Numbsville...
...everyone is interested in the blisters and bruises that we athletes love so dearly. So why not use Radcliffe's other resources, such as the Bunting Institute, Schlesinger Library and externships, to develop as scholars and individuals? Use the physical space of Radcliffe. Do cartwheels in the Yard. Sing and dance in Agassiz theater...
...adjust their voices, change their clothes and put on masks to convey the wide variety of personalities and places featured in the musical. All of this frantic shifting of attitude and environment makes the show's final number, in which the cast members face the audience as themselves and sing about finding a new song, all the more powerful. Its sweet, hopeful simplicity is an eloquent conclusion that suggest the humanity lying beneath all of the show's hectic modern concerns...
...LokerLand, Cambridge's answer to Foxwoods. He claims that having a full-service casino within walking distance would be a windfall for campus coffers, especially if Crimson Cash is good for currency and all debts can be term-billed home. Another friend even suggested that our illustrious deans could sing "Wannabe" for tips in the smoky lounge (perhaps in place of where the book swap now stands). "Meet me under the painting of Catherine Loker," students will say. "And bring your lucky dice...
Imported sects like the Unification Church have seen an opening there. Homegrown groups have also sprung up. One surrounds a would-be messiah named Vissarion. With his flowing dark hair, wispy beard and a sing-song voice full of aphorisms, he has managed to attract about 5,000 followers to his City of the Sun. Naturally it's in Siberia, near the isolated town of Minusinsk. According to reports in the Russian press, Vissarion is a former traffic cop who was fired for drinking. In his public appearances, he speaks of "the coming end" and instructs believers that suicide...