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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fighter albums have always been something of a schizophrenic affair. Within Grohl's songs there lurks a love for pop music that bubbles up in the middle of the usual hardcore barrage. The tension reached critical mass on The Colour and the Shape, which alternated between ripping throats and jerking tears. The break-neck changes in style between songs gave the album a brilliantly fractured feel but beat up the listener in the process. The divisiveness of the album only foreshadowed the real-life breakups just over the horizon. After losing two guitarists, a drummer and a record label...
...even more frustrating to think that the diluted sitcom treatment was a conscious choice for how to deal with the material, since the premise isn't original. The storyline, in which Chris O'Donnell inherits a lot of money on condition that he get married within 24 hours, is a remake of a 1925 Buster Keaton silent gem called Seven Chances. The put-upon bachelor first botches things with his steady girlfriend, then must propose to everyone he knows until a newspaper story phoned in by his friend brings a stampede of bridegowned fortune-seekers chasing him through town...
Tonis put out a four-state police alert and within 30 minutes the highway patrol had pulled over two students with Brown University identification driving a van with the drum towards Providence, R.I. The Harvard Band did not press charges, but the highway patrol...
...McClelland's overall vision was a play within a play, with Faustus as the central recipient of a conspiracy unknown to him. The intrigue not only involves deception but also more subtle gestures that aim at including the audience. I had the honor of sitting next to the bad angel (Austin Guest '03) who ingeniously concealed his presence so that he was embodied only in the spotlight he directed at Faustus. This, combined with the cover art of the program, was just another piece of a conceptually consistent production, even if it seemed a bit cryptic at the time...
Little mistakes like Wilford's wayward pass that was returned for a touchdown and pulled Dartmouth to within a pair of touchdowns, 35-21, may not have hurt the Crimson last week...