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Call the new sound coffeehouse pop. It has a comforting warmth, a topping of sugary froth, and it provides a kind of buzz, like sipping a cappuccino in a corner cafe. It is led, mostly, by female singer-songwriters, writing primarily from a feminist point of view. On her hit song Bitch, Meredith Brooks declares that she wants to "reclaim a word that had taken on a really derogatory meaning." But ideology or no, these women are unafraid to celebrate their own sensuality. On the inside flap of her album, Jewel poses in a sexy yellow swimsuit...
...began with a few dozen people watching but ended with several hundred, who gave her a standing ovation. Jewel, on the first and largest stage, was the high point. On record, her voice sometimes has a tepid blond wispiness; in concert, it has a crackling, sparks-flying, campfire warmth. Finally McLachlan, with her full band, appeared on the first stage to close out the day with a serene set that shimmered like twilight...
Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson lauded Brock's "intellect, leadership qualities, community-building capacity, warmth and commitment to the mission of Radcliffe and the Bunting Institute...
...Song We Were Singing, a gentle number looking back at the psychedelic bull sessions of the 1960s, has a jaunty feel but also a wistful one; Heaven on a Sunday finds McCartney at his most angelic, his voice gliding peacefully over a sadly sweet melody. The song has familial warmth to it, and no wonder: McCartney's wife Linda sings backing vocals on the track, and his son James, 20, plays electric guitar...
That's what made our Tuesday night meeting both rare and special. Though we were Crimson editors, Fly Club members, Hillel associates and Lampoon staffers, we felt the warmth of community that Harvard often represses. With theses graded and exams finished long ago, we finally had time for song and dance. Some of us hadn't seen each other in years, but conversations drifted back to where they'd paused. Suddenly we found ourselves with some breathing room. Suddenly we realized that the cycle was not completely closed, that we had a break before plunging into lives of corporate boredom...