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...Shanghai and recollects, in passing, such spicy background scenes as the sailors' prison in San Francisco, a "bin full of murderers, cutthroats, sodomists, and mutineers dredged from the leaky hulls that jammed the docks." He also does some riffs on Chinese secret societies, the erotic kinks of foot-bound "sing-song girls," and the power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce used the drug as the official standard of exchange. To his appetite for low company Seagrave adds an urbane taste for incongruity, a penchant for Edwardian epigrams ("There is a time...
...shake violently, you laugh even more violently, you weep, you beg for your mom, there are hands all around you, you sing at the top of your lungs to exorcise the demons while you get tucked into bed, and somehow, your life makes more sense than ever. Add that to a song that’s already about passionate loneliness, and you’ve got your video salvation for midterm studying...
Where to find you on a Saturday night: Beirut somewhere and then probably the typical swimmer party, ending in a Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” sing along...followed by Crab Rangoon...
...like Peritz, says that opera was one of the reasons that she chose to attend Harvard, the only school she considered that had an opera program. Through the Boston Children’s Opera, where she sang in high school, Eggleston had a chance to sing in the LHO even before she enrolled at Harvard...
...tend to be more obscene, lacking even the shreds of subtlety that would make their statements funny. Fenway, for example, has its middle-of-the-eighth tradition of playing Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” to which all 35,000 Sox faithful sing along...