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...weakest link throughout is saxophonist Shorter, whose searching, jerky sound is beautiful and haunting when set against a rhythm section that isn't quite so busy itself. In "So What," Shorter quotes liberally from Monk and other Miles tunes, using the fast pace of the composition to build continuity between sparsely connected phrases. At times, the result can be dynamic, as in Shorter's quoting of Monk's "Bemsha Swing" near the beginning of "So What;" in other places, Shorter's decisions seem arbitrary and his thinner, reedier sound falls short next to Roney's full bodied and equally intense...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Of Tango, Bluegrass, and surf Music... | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...weakest day," co-captain Richard Ou said...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Men Swim to Title | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...confidence, ease, laughter." Hamill as a boy was obsessed by the comics, including Captain America, who began as mild-mannered Steve Rogers but then drank a magic serum that transformed him into a brilliant pile of muscles, the scourge of Nazi saboteurs. "The comics taught me that even the weakest human being could take a drink and be magically transformed into someone smarter, bigger, braver," Hamill writes. "All you needed was the right drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taut Wire of Childhood Memory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...write as a member of the committee that in 1977 recommended to the then Dean of the Faculty that he invite Richard C. Marius to become Director of Expository Writing. At the time, Expository Writing was regarded by students and faculty alike as the weakest part of the undergraduate curriculum. Few of the writing teachers were themselves writers. Most students had a low opinion of Expos, and the best writers among them had the lowest opinions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marius Does an Excellent Job at Expos | 10/29/1993 | See Source »

Offense was certainly the Crimson's weakest point in the game, but its defense had its share of problems, too, many owing to the simple fact that they were out on the field a good deal more than half the time...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: One Rough Day | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

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