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...musical apprenticeship began in the early '80s. A Swedish pop phenom, Rein drove teenage girls into adoring delirium and even up trees. After three albums, his star faded - "I had nothing left to give" - but he learned how to relate to audiences and "how to get the right twist" in songs. He moved into the studio, writing radio ad jingles. He learned not only how to program and arrange, but also what works on air. "If the hook's not there in seconds, you're dead," he advises...
...pursuit and seduction. He pops up mysteriously wherever the Owens siblings are. Each Owens knows that Adam is hiding something, but none of them can quite figure out what it is. And it certainly does not deter any one of them from falling into his clutches. But the refreshing twist of About Adam is that by the end, no one cares enough to figure out what Adam's secrets are. Each character appreciates the way in which he enriches them, and the conventional standards for romance are deemed irrelevant. The audience, too, learns to stop asking who Adam really...
Which is all well and good for a Japanese fad, but if the guy in the Mickey Mouse suit in Anaheim started parapara-ing, barely anyone would recognize he was dancing. The Twist may not have been much of an improvement on the Waltz, and nothing has surpassed the Tango?and don't even get us started on the Macarena?but parapara is an entirely different language altogether?a Japanese dance phenomenon that is far more Japan than it is dance...
...took a new twist last weekend, both on and office...
...some points, if you closed your eyes, Bright Hockey Center almost resembled Cornell's fearsome Lynah Rink. Especially when an old tradition received a new twist. Historically, for Harvard-Cornell games at Bright, some Harvard fans would sneak out onto the ice and tie a chicken to the goal to mock the Big Red's agricultural school. In turn, at Lynah, fans would throw fish to poke fun at Harvard's proximity...