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While singing a solo for the song “You’d Be Surprised” with the Radcliffe Pitches over Harvard-Yale Weekend this year, Melissa Borja ’04 was herself surprised—by a marriage proposal from Greg Westin ’04-’05. The weekend of The Game has always held special significance for the couple: they met at their first Game their freshman year and began dating shortly after...
...show ends with the nudes that were the subject of the only solo exhibition that Modigliani had in his lifetime. Something about the way they combined simplified figuration with frank tufts of armpit and pubic hair shocked even Paris. The gendarmes were alerted and closed the show down. You won't have to worry about that now. You'll just have to fight the crowds...
...only thing missing until recently was music. Although Morrissey's solo albums sold well and he easily filled arenas, he was dropped from his record label in 1997 and spent years looking for a new deal, fighting perceptions that he was petulant and that his audience had aged beyond its intense interest in his every thought. The rise of bands as diverse as Dashboard Confessional and Linkin Park, which have cited Morrissey as an influence, and the flood of Morrissey shrines on the Internet were enough to persuade the Sanctuary Records Group to give him a shot. "I never stopped...
...Morrissey knows that it will probably be the same group of hard-core wallowers crowding the register at record stores. That doesn't bother him much, in part because being Mr. Misery is a pretty good gig. (Quarry will probably enter in the Top 10, and his most recent solo tour sold out in--no joke--5 min.) He also knows he has done plenty to earn the title. As lead singer of the legendary '80s band the Smiths, Morrissey was quite possibly the unhappiest person in the world. What bonded him to his audience forever--and made...
...times, with local boys, they'd set up stumps at the park around the corner or at the beach, where they chose between two types of pitch - fast (the hard sand) or a subcontinental turner (the soft stuff). These games could go for hours, like sessions of the various solo bat-and-ball activities that young Greg would settle for sometimes...