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...time leading scorer. When Harvard learned that it had drawn the Terrapins as its first-round opponent, Delaney-Smith couldn’t help dwelling on what might have been—four years of Doron in a Crimson uniform, her senior leadership and silky smooth shooting stroke leading a talented group of underclassmen into postseason play.“We recruited Shay Doron heavily,” Delaney-Smith said last Monday after the NCAA Selection Show. “She’s really a great player—very athletic and tough as nails...
...shock. Winehouse’s grainy and emotional voice should soar and dance; you expect trills and thrills, decadence and manic madness. But after being patient through the entire album, waiting for it to get really, really exciting, you discover that Winehouse keeps things disappointingly in check, favoring smooth R&B lines and lush vibrato...
...this respect, her personality one-ups her voice. The craziness comes through in the words, but not the melodies. You listen to “Tears Dry On Their Own,” but they’ve all already fallen and dried. When Winehouse opts for smooth, tasteful jazz as in her sixth track, “Love Is A Losing Game,” she sounds more like Nancy Wilson than a rebel-punk Mary J. Blige. If she’s willing to go balls-to-the-walls tasteless in her lyrics, why not take...
...more innocent days of floppy disks and huge mixers in tiny studio rooms. Similarly, a lot of the shots seem forced. As Kanye once again talks about dropping out of college, Rakim markets his next album, and KRS-One yells about something or other. Nas, with his smooth and raspy delivery, is the video’s only savior—everything from the camera angles to the lighting suggests classic Nas videos like “One Mic.” In the end, this video is no “My Adidas” or even...
...successfully create characters deep enough to be plausible but nutty enough to be funny. Yet, despite its strengths, I cannot get over the feeling that the show had as much sincerity as a late-night infomercial. Unlike the campy jokes of Letterman and O’Brien or the smooth irony of the Daily Show, “The ½ Hour News Hour” leaves behind the sour taste of carefully planned conservative “medicine” with a half-hearted scoop of sugar...