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...dance. And the band has never remained static. When the late bbc DJ John Peel described their last Glastonbury Festival performance as "surprisingly muscular," he was observing the gradual transformation of a band often relegated to the "twee" genre - music so light and self-referential that it almost shattered upon listening - of the late '80s. The surprise choice of Trevor Horn (the ex-Buggle who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood and t.A.T.u.) as producer on the last album, the brilliant Dear Catastrophe Waitress, was a play to reach beyond the sensitive librarian stereotype, even at the risk of alienating...
...market friendly, but abstraction has its rewards. They include the floating ecstasy of the break-up song Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) ("Now where's the woolen sweater/ You mentioned in the letter?/ Imply/ The other guy") and the partial fingerprints of Joy Division and R.E.M. on Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood, which, title notwithstanding, offers nuanced anger about the war in you know where...
...need more than one, you’ve probably seen “B*A*P*S” a few too many times. Character Analysis: Patience Philips starts out as a soft-spoken worker at a cosmetics company. After she, with her acute investigative savvy, stumbles upon a corporate secret, she, in a cinematic twist of fate, becomes Catwoman, a heroine who must take down the corporate structure—aka Sharon Stone. Notable quotation: Catwoman: “You see, sometimes I’m good. Oh, I’m very good. But sometimes...
There are various ways of addressing this concern, some philosophical and some pragmatic. On the philosophical end, one might question whether we ought to accept the “self-interest” model of rational choice foisted upon us by economists. After all, protest only seems irrational when “success” is so individualistically defined. On the pragmatic end, the public relations victories that human rights advocates are winning serve as evidence that one will not be alone in making ethical decisions and hence that such efforts at bringing about change need not be totally...
...he’s wonderful.”She was equally approving of the rest of Harvard.“It’s way better than I thought it would be,” Berry said. “Their sense of humor was staggering.”Upon accepting her Pudding Pot, Berry said “one of the things I love most is laughing at myself,” adding that the Pot will go next to another golden award—her Oscar.—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...