Word: songfulness
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...been put together; local musician Marc Black sang about Chief Katonah, the town's Native American namesake, as members of the Ramapough Lenape Indian nation, who had been enlisted to share in the outrage, looked on. Two recent high school grads took to the Internet with another protest song ("You're a craftsman who can make a vase in the dark. Please leave us be without a trademark"), and area writer Bill Tisherman reserved a Manhattan theater for a November performance of a 90-minute Martha roast. While the backlash followed in the tradition of other great Katonah protests (like...
Sometimes Zell, 66, shares his views with friends through an annual New Year's e-mail, in which he changes the lyrics of a song to reflect his thoughts. In January 2006, he opined on the private-equity boom through a remake of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--changed to "Capital keeps rainin' on my head/ So much is out there that the world is out of whack/ When will we see balance back?" The ending: "We need to be prepared for slim annuities...
What's your favorite Goo Goo Dolls song...
...speaks to the same issue. It just had to be a party held by a black student, the fights had to be so bad that nearly all the cops in Cambridge came, and The Crimson’s news article just had to cite some incredibly old rap song to top it all off. It was all seen as yet another reason why African Americans must do everything in their power to constantly provide positive images of the black man. However, the assumption that black men will always be seen as a monolith is one I’m quite...
...loop in our heads, even when we detest them. This "defenseless engraving of music on the brain," Sacks suggests, is a result of the precision with which most of us can replay music internally; built to seek stimuli, the brain rewards itself for its fidelity with perfect repeats of songs. But for the patients in Sacks' book who suffer musical hallucinations - a related and not uncommon condition in which imaginary music seems to come from an outside source that can't be turned off - the results are often debilitating. One patient, June B., has been subjected to a short, repeating...