Word: vu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Deja vu all over again? The Harvard men’s lacrosse team has indeed found an anecdote for its seven-game losing streak—overtime...
...what unfortunate gov. jock can forget that last year, in an attempt to ensure that most students earned Bs, “C-minus” bound his government sophomore tutorial to an adjusted grading scale. What déja vu then when this year, in an attempt to ensure that most students earn Bs, the ECP recommends binding students to a newly adjusted grading scale...
...pizzas are the free-form, thin-crust, eclectic-ingredient pies one often finds around these days, somewhat reminiscent of the offerings at the late Brew Moon (Church Street restaurant déjà vu). The nine options at Cambridge, 1 are built from dough and sauce made daily on the premises and the charcoal grilling really does impart a fantastic crunch and smoky flavor. My only general quibble would be that the tomato sauce seems too prepared, with not enough of the pure taste of a fresh tomato allowed to shine through. Especially as summer dawns, less is often more...
Ironically , the show’s best moments received relatively lukewarm applause. In multi-instrumentalist Richard Bona and trumpter/vocalist Cuong Vu, the Group has found two brilliant artists. Hailing from Cameroon, Bona brings a lovely pure, high voice, and a lyrical, warm electric bass while Vu’s voice and horn are in equal measure poised and pristine. They blended beautifully on the chorale opening of “Another Life” and both produced restrained evocative solos that fleshed out Metheny’s soundscapes. The most tumultuous applause, however, was reserved for the bandleader himself...
...impossible to doze off, however, when the band launched into a horn showcase that riffed on Metheny’s composition “Offramp.” Vu crafted a searing, unsettling sonic landscape by half-blowing, half-buzzing into his horn. He simultaneously filtered and looped the sound with a mixer at his side and proceeded to solo over the resulting vamp. Initially captivating for its ingenuity, it decayed into a druggy, hellish stream of screaming guitars, strobing lights and tumult of menacing drums. It was an unsettling, visual and auditory apocalypse that left the audience puzzling...