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...words celebrity and show business came into vogue. Pop culture of every kind was exploding. P.T. Barnum operated an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan that featured stage plays, vaudeville, freak shows, a menagerie and a somewhat insane museum of natural history. In 1850, Barnum promoted the first American tour of the first international superstar--the Swedish singer Jenny Lind, for whom he stirred up such hysteria that on the day she arrived in New York, almost one-tenth of the city thronged the wharves to get a glimpse...
Next, consider a well-meaning yet largely apathetic, consumer who miraculously discovers his deep feelings for the poor after reading the “fair trade” pamphlet at his local supermarket. He is somewhat uncertain about how a fixed price benefits Guatemalan farmers, but congratulates himself anyway on his newfound moral strength...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 159th show, which indicated a lack of appreciation for the Pudding as a performing group and the tradition of the Pudding production. I’m going to venture a guess that Richard Beck has never seen a Pudding show until this year. This alone is somewhat confusing; The Crimson Arts Board sent a Pudding virgin to review the highest-grossing show on campus. This is a pretty safe assumption, seeing as everyone I’ve spoken to who has seen previous Pudding shows has agreed with me that 159 is perhaps the best Pudding show...
...only woman with whom he’s fallen out of favor.“JennyLee’s dating Frankie Muniz,” Dern adds.But he sounds more amused than upset. “It adds to the absurdity.” In general, however, Dern sounds somewhat defeated. “Now that it’s over there’s a weird feeling of hollowness or incompleteness,” he says. “It kind of knocked the wind out of me. I’m still catching my breath. I felt like...
...R.I.P.”), and a tooth-rot inducing, schmaltzy ballad, which was formerly the theme song for a children’s television show of the same name (“White Horses”). While not wholly disagreeable, the rest of the album is lyrically bland and somewhat sappy. Much of what makes this album so disappointing is the past history of these artists. Dean Wareham was one of the founding members of Galaxie 500, a band acclaimed for their enchanting and experimental instrumentals. And Luna was a long-running, immensely popular indie band, and rightly...