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...What kind of Christmas album would rock 'n roll's first superstar make? Well, the opening track, a Leiber-Stoller R&B number called "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," sounded a declaration of war against the Christmas-music tradition. As Elvis growled and screamed it: "Hang up your pretty stockin's / Turn off de light / Santa Claus is comin' / Down the old chimney tonight." Sexually explicit enough for ya? The title track - which lyrically is just another song about being alone or lonely on a holiday that's meant to reunite loved ones - was sung...
...display. I can only imagine how ugly the other two must have been. 2. The mural in Quincy Dining Hall. It’s like a really big, flat sand castle turned on its side and painted. Enough said. 3. Laurence Tribe’s paintings. Why is a superstar professor of constitutional law painting pictures to illustrate constitutional history? And why are they so bad? 4. The “Sun Gate” in the Leverett Courtyard. This bronze sculpture, a rethinking of a Shinto gate, is squat, ugly, and boring. What is it doing in the Leverett...
...tormentor? Maybe she'll unearth his submerged humanity and turn Hannibal into a vegetarian; the fava beans and Chianti would still be on the menu, but not his latest victim's liver. Or, if he's permanently lured Clarice to the dark side, they might roam the world as superstar vampire and zombie, the Brad and Angelina of psychopathic predators...
...Pei’s John Hancock Tower—an iconic building, but an engineering disaster.This trend is on the verge of reversal, however, with major expansion projects underway at the MFA, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Harvard’s own Fogg Museum, bringing projects by superstar architects Norman Foster and Renzo Piano to Boston for the first timeBut if there are several developments on the horizon, the ICA is the crown jewel in the city’s architectural tiara. Many in the art world have high hopes that the new Institute will play a major role...
...such as Music for Airports, Eno quietly introduced a whole new genre of music to the record racks. It was ambient - music created to fill a given space, music you could immerse yourself in or just as easily ignore. Along the way, of course, he's also been a superstar collaborator and producer, helping create career-high albums for the likes of David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2 right through to the high-gloss finish he applied to Paul Simon's angsty Surprise this year. But here and now Eno doesn't want to talk about music - he visibly slumps...