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...songs evoke, or quote, old favorites. "The Nicest Kids in Town" echoes both "The Peppermint Twist" and "Mony Mony," cutely tweaked to "Money money!" The sextet "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" is the Crystals' "He's Sure the Boy I Love" (the saxophones primmer than Nino Tempo's on the Spector singles) with a twist of "Twist and Shout." Tracy's ballad "I Can Hear the Bells" summons the ghosts of white-girl singers and the ultimate white-girl tribute song, Neil Sedaka's "Calendar Girl"; instead of the months counted off, we hear "Round One... Round...
Fritz had a productive first half, controlling the tempo of the game with his precise ball distribution. Fritz teamed with sophomore forward Jeremy Truntzer and senior midfielder Marc Buan to create most of Harvard’s first-half offense...
...year Athens hosted the first Games of the modern era. No one is suggesting that the new Nikaia Weightlifting Hall matches the Parthenon for elegance or grandeur. Nor is the new Olympic Village being carved out of marble from Mount Pentelicus, the pride of ancient architects. But the tempo of building is impressive - even Periclean. And it comes not a moment too soon. The Games begin in less than 690 days - as digital countdown signs at major construction sites helpfully remind the workers - and despite remarkable progress in recent months, serious doubts remain about whether all the projects will...
...couldn’t establish a tempo and keep the ball, and it was a constant struggle to keep it,” Roth said...
...partner?"Look at his nose and then you understand," he says?is a former top international boxing matchmaker, once ranked as the world's third-best promoter by Ring Magazine. A stats junkie endowed with an encyclopedic sports memory, he moonlights as a columnist for the Italian dailies Il Tempo and La Gazzetta dello Sport. In 1993 he won the atp media excellence award...