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...television for any reason in this case," Judge Young said as he banned cameras from his courtroom. "This case is not going to be tried in the press." But as anyone who read the Boston Herald and Globe during the first Woodward trial knows, that may be a vain hope...
...exodus of patchouli-wearing folk--which diverted much of the crowd's attention from String Cheese Incident--towards the front, was effectively stopped by the bouncers at the front of each section. The pointing to "friends" and claims of "I left my ticket at my seat" were in vain, and even the spaced-out-girl-in-too-little-clothing act didn't work. Unlike other places, the "No Smoking" sign at the entrance to the seating area actually meant no smoking. By the end of String Cheese Incident's last number, which dragged on for over twenty minutes, everybody...
...last week to a one-year test run, and three other Houses--Winthrop, Cabot and Dunster--are said to be considering joining in. But all this "progress" is on a trial basis, and leaves eight Houses with no improvement at all in the near future. So here, in the vain hope that a House master or two might be reading, is one final effort to convey the blunt truth: the fact that a Harvard ID card does not allow a Harvard undergraduate access to other Harvard undergraduate Houses is probably the least rational, most infuriating policy at the College...
...John LaChiusa's Mistress of the Senator, and you've got a collection guaranteed to make intelligent theater-music fans prick up their ears. There's only one catch: Way Back to Paradise contains scenes, arias, and even full-blown art songs. But nostalgia-hungry listeners will search in vain among these determinedly theatrical post-Sondheim musical monologues for anything resembling the straightforward, crisply turned lyrics and incisive 32-bar melodies that for decades defined American popular music at its best...
...African queen of the sea. Millions of revelers clad entirely in white, a symbol of purity in Afro-Brazilian culture, throng the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to placate Iemanja and court good luck by lighting candles and tossing flowers, cosmetics and other gifts into the ocean for the vain goddess...