Word: sound
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What should you expect of an artist who lists among his achievements a featured spot in a Tommy Hilfiger commercial--a sound that's reasonably pleasant but presented in so belabored a format as to be painful? That's Michael Fredo in short--a "talent" to whom that word should be applied cautiously...
Fredo's first album, Introducing Michael Fredo, gives us some of what the "talent" calls his "youthquake" sound. Fredo's got all the makings of a boy-bander gone awry. In songs like "Who Said," his voice is pleasant, but not enough to keep you listening, and the beat in "This Time Around" (the song used in the Tommy spot) is too unemphatic to make you want to dance...
...Mainstage currently hosts the biggest and best of undergraduate productions and, if the space were turned over to undergraduates full time, would be an important resource beyond the additional performance dates. The lighting, sound and set design in the Loeb are Harvard's most sophisticated and professional, giving more students experience in drama work and bringing Harvard's theater program closer to par with schools that have degree-awarding drama departments...
...Maybe it's in the brisk sting that snaps across your cheeks when you take that first step outside in the morning. Or maybe it's in the way the afternoon breeze gently plucks yellowed leaves from the trees in the Yard. I guess it could be in the sound of a marching band on a Saturday afternoon, or the smell of a wood fire on a chilly Cambridge evening...
...Reform party and gunning for its presidential nomination. That the announcement will be made in the D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Va., pretty much sums up his appeal ?- he?s a political outsider who?s not too far outside and a political commentator who?s smart enough to sound halfway credible and wacky enough to appeal to the margins. Those who are waving Buchanan ashore see a rabble-rousing candidate (in the best sense of the phrase) who?ll bring a small army of followers and a measure of political professionalism to a young party whose power base is currently...