Word: vernal
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...tracks, Body II Body, wriggles and sweats like two teens making out in the backseat of a small car (it also features a smartly chosen sample from David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes). Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth. Her vernal personality (she co-wrote seven of the 12 songs) is what gives her CD lasting flavor. She's soulful but never oversings her material; youthful but never comes off as childish...
Michael S. Vernal '01 also defends the program's theory-heavy curriculum as more interesting than an approach that is focused on many specific applications...