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...thing to ask someone out,” explained Choi. Just think about the alluring pick up lines that will come out of this program: “Hey…so…um…now that movie tickets are really cheap…uh…wanna go out?” As much as it would be great to see droves of Harvard dating-novices finally working up the nerve to make a move, it seems unlikely that the idea of saving a few extra bucks will instantly turn a timid Joe Harvard into Mr. Debonair...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: Lonely Joe Harvard | 2/26/2003 | See Source »

...other half of The Raven, however, is songs, the best of which are a continuation of the weary romantic journey Reed has been on since his Velvet Underground days. None are verse-chorus-verse accessible, but Perfect Day and the fiery duet I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum), with the Blind Boys of Alabama, prove that Reed is still attuned to the knocking on his own chamber door. "One thinks of what one hopes to be," he sings mournfully, "and then faces reality." --By Josh Tyrangiel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New York's Favorite Sons | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

Most memorable pickup line a guy/girl has ever used on you: “Hey, wanna go make out in the Spee phone booth...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli and Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

...perhaps for the marketing tie-in to the official Elvis Presley Teddy Bears on sale at better chain stores, he turns it into a children's song; he could be a father crooning silky nonsense to a first-born. He lends a seductive petulance in "I don't wanna be your tiger/ 'Cause tigers play too rough." He plays with the title words as if they were Silly Putty, altering the stress and length of the vowels. It's a great, blithe performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Happy Birthday, Elvis | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...clearly bears no sexual connotation in the words “fine” and “animal,” the songwriters take full advantage of these implications. As trumpets blare and bongos thump suggestively in the background, a sultry female voice whispers “I wanna make a baby/And I don’t mean maybe/I’ll say it straight/I need to procreate.” Later in the song, a crowd of people eggs on the primate in an act that only the criminally unbalanced can imagine (“Go Koko...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gorillas in the Mix | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

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