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...Club brought women despite Harvard's objections, the Harvard club protested during the concert and walked off stage at one point. Yale Glee Club members threatened that they wouldn't return to Cambridge for the next Harvard home Game. On the field, Harvard won, 14-12.Crimson File PhotoBy the mid-80s, uniforms, fans and styles had changed...
ROCK PERFORMERS USED TO THINK big. In the '70s and '80s, groups like Led Zeppelin and Genesis turned songs into epics stretching for seven, eight, nine minutes. But for the past several years--in part influenced by Nirvana, whose visceral songs got much of their power from their brutal succinctness--many rockers have opted for brevity. Hot bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters turn out short, single-minded songs whose melodies, like newly announced presidential candidates, strive for instant likability. That's not necessarily a bad thing: blasting Weezer on your Walkman after a hard...
...There was a 52 percent increase in government spending in the '80s, as opposed to only a 17 percent increase in the '70s," Buckley said. "This is an eminently knowable fact. Why hasn't the media illuminated...
Blue Man Group today represents a virtual supernova of the group's beginnings. Long-time friends Matt Goldman, Chris Wink and Phil Stanton began Blue Man Group in reaction to the avant-garde art scene of the late '80s. "We were critics," says Wink. "We were like Siskel and Ebert--and Zeppo". They wrote "Tubes" in 1991 and were amazed by the critical and popular success it has become. After four years, European and U.S. tours and Obie and Drama Desk awards, "Tubes" is still selling out two shows a night in New York and Boston. "To be able...
Centered around the work of the late Mark Morrisroe, the exhibition also showcases the art of six other artists who lived, worked and studied in Boston in the late '70s to early '80s. David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca ("PL") diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian) and Shellburne Thurber, as well as Morrisroe, all knew and influenced each other...