Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Committee on Weather (my first-year roommate informed me the old salt once said, "If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a minute"), I explained I looked outside in the morning, listened for wind, tried to judge the character of the clouds, and out I went. No charts, no tables, nothing written down to be contradicted...
...what's up with movies these days--playing songs on trailers and never ever using the songs in the movie, or even putting them on the soundtrack? For those of you stuck with an annoyingly catchy song in your head and want to know the title, The Crimson went and did some research...
...accomplished anything it is because we have stood on the shoulders of giants, but Douglas Coupland decided to step on the giants' toes and give them a swift kick to the crotch when he came out with his novel Generation X only a year after yuppie whining manifesto thirtysomething went off the air. In this book and in Microserfs, Coupland chronicled the effects of yuppie angst on the rest of the world-that post-yuppie generation bit by their own species of the Y2Kare bug. Just as middle-management yupsters lashed out against the oppressive ineffectuality of upper management...
...crowd went in expecting sugary confections like the summer radio staple "Steal My Sunshine"--and it's pretty safe to assume it did--a surprise was waiting inside the Paradise. It began with Styles of Beyond, an underground hip-hop group from L.A. While DJ Cheapshot of SOB (an unfortunate self-inflicted acronym) laid down some tight beats, the audience seemed to be waiting for more radio-friendly action. Which is not to say that Styles of Beyond is that far from national exposure--MCs Ryu and Tak Bir's smooth rapping styles foretell a possible MTV explosion some time...
...down. Len seemed genuinely shocked at their warm reception--in the encore Marc remarked that they usually don't have to come out again because, "we're running out the back 'cause they're chasing us away." I don't necessarily blame these hostile crowds--what if you went to Britney Spears and got Wu-Tang? But by closing their ears to the beats just because they're unexpected, they're missing some great...