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...more grating speech impediments in recent memory. Another band, the Folksmen, is comprised of the same actors playing the same instruments they butchered in Spinal Tap, but reinvented as balding, anachronistic folk singers. The script makes a serious mistake in under-using the Folksmen, replacing the genuine tension of their metal alter egos with some inane squabbling over set lists. Rounding out the collection are the New Main Street Singers, whose leaders practice some sort of color-based religion that is far too ludicrous to be amusing...
...fraternity when her boyfriend spent a semester abroad and their relationship ended. University of Miami Greeks call the trend of relationship drama between the sweetheart and her boyfriend “the curse of the sweetheart.” Sequino says that becoming the sweetheart often causes breakups and tension throughout the fraternity. But despite these conflicts between love and brotherhood, she has enjoyed her term as the sweetheart and says she counts the brothers among her closest guy friends. “I am honored that they chose me,” she says. “[Sigma...
While Ladd clearly loves the art and comedy of mainstream black music, his point is striking: that the Majesticons of the real world are in danger of assimilating into the ruling class, against which hip-hop has traditionally struggled. It is this tension between celebration and censure that rings true to fans of the music, and makes Beauty Party at once a joy and a challenge...
While we may be used to hard-nosed debate between Europe and the U.S. over genetically modified organisms or the environment, the war in Iraq has created remarkable tension over the Atlantic. If ignored, ultimately both sides will deeply suffer...
Thus started the Summers Tennis Watch. And with each passing week, tension mounted. The Harvard community held its collective breath, waiting to see if Larry Summers and FM’s Ben Mathis-Lilley, Ben Wasserstein and Kenyon Weaver would meet on the court. The odds didn’t look good. Our first proposal to Summers’ office, sent almost a year ago, had received a polite but firm “no.” Our second proposal, sent in the fall, had received a polite but firm complete lack of response. Hoping to turn...