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...auditioned because she liked the show from previous years, and says she isn’t doing anything drastic to prepare for the show. Her words of advice for the audience: “the drunker you are, the better we look.” Vida C. Harvey ‘04, a member of Expressions as well an Eleganza model, says that her practice for the dance show, held last weekend, did more than enough to keep her in shape for the event, while Erika M. Jungblut ’02, is really working on practicing her walk. Many...
...1920s and only uses hand-spun wool and native Andean dyes. With this technique, Sulca weaves together modern and ancient symbols. Some are easy to decipher: notes on a staff to represent music, for instance, and an easel signifies art in “Gracias a la Vida...
...VIDA LOCA Ricky Martin's explosive performance of The Cup of Life at the 1999 Grammy Awards rockets him to international superstardom and gives rise to a surge of interest in Latin...
That may not be enough. Looking at file names alone is a glitchy method of recognizing a song. If Napster's system pulls down every file named La Vida Loca but leaves ones that users labeled, say, La Vida Loco containing the same song, the labels may well go back to court and demand more. "The question isn't what's going to be sufficient in the eyes of Napster," says Vance Ikezoye, CEO of Audible Magic, which makes software that identifies music files based on the actual music. "The question is going to be what kind of technology...
...nonconformist nature (one of Jobim's hits, "Desafinado" (or "off-key") celebrates the genre's subtly unsettling sound). Of course, today, decades later, people in the States listen to "The Girl From Ipanema" and, to unschooled ears, it sounds like a novelty song, kind of the way "Livin' La Vida Loca" sounded five minutes after I first heard it. But if you listen to the original version of "Ipanema," it's really an elegant, intelligent song. Now people hear the title and, sadly, think Muzak. The music industry has a way, maybe like history itself, of turning mountainous achievements into...