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...with an interest in hip hop realizes the debt this genre owes to the Beasties. With their debut LP, the smash hit Licensed To Ill, they, along with Rick Rubin, helped introduce heavy metal and other rock influences to rap. (Go listen to the Ghetto Boyz song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" at half-speed for one of a million examples of how this has spread.) The underappreciated follow-up, Paul's Boutique (my personal favorite Beasties record), was one of the first rap albums to feature crazily layered funk samples and undermixed vocals. Along with De La Soul...
Amazingly, Ben-Schachar stared down double match point, didn't blink, took two points to tie and then two more to win. The championship was Harvard's and it was sweet...
...when the Spanish Republic was proclaimed, ending the long night of decadent monarchy and preceding the still darker night of civil war and Francoism. It was a historical nanosecond when everyone felt frisky intellectually and emotionally, and this surprising film, which wears its complexities so lightly, pays sweet tribute to that spirit. It is rendered the more poignant by our knowledge -- not, of course, shared by the characters -- of how brief and repressible their irrepressibility would prove...
After a week of cramming for midterms, students are now staking time and money on their ability to predict the Sweet Sixteen and the Final Four of the NCAA Division I Men's basketball tournament...
...devastating twist that makes the ending is a surprise, and nevertheless absolutely logical. One feels slightly battered, and yet exhilarated, and ultimately filled with a sweet melancholy. The film's pleasures are practically inexhaustible. There is Marie Dubois as Therese, the chain-smoking philandering, cocotte. There is Georges Delerue's haunting, evocative music. There is the carefree relationship between Jules and Jim, which is made possible by Werner's and Serre's terrific performances. And when all else and, there is Jeanne Moreau's voice. At one point, the film's narrator tells the audience that "the month that [Catherine...