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...Where is the evidence that Kirkland has the gong? At the outbreak of war, Mather pointed to circumstantial indicators including a UPS slip signed by a notable Kirkland resident, and let their hysterical rhetoric do the rest. But time has cast harsh doubt on that slip’s authenticity??indeed, some have even suggested that high-ranking officials of Mather’s House Committee altered the slip to implicate Kirkland...
From a sports standpoint, Toback makes a number of interesting moves. Toback employed former WHRB broadcasters Chris Wolfe ’01 and Brian Schulz ’01, adding a nice degree of authenticity??even though Schulz and Wolfe were the hockey voices of the Crimson, and usually a touch more out of breath. Greiner’s play calls to mind aspects of Drew Gellert—on a very bad day, perhaps, but Gellert nonetheless. Admirably, the Harvard uniforms worn by Greiner and his teammate, played by NBA All-Star Ray Allen, are the real...
...guitar solos are standard and the rap is weak, obscene with the thinness of 2 Live Crew but without the authenticity??what one expects from someone whose first big single, “Bawitdaba” thrived on little more than a copped and garbled Slick Rick lyric set to heavy metal. Kid Rock spends the better part of the album repeating the image of the American bad ass in his rock/hip-hop style: dirty-mouthed, abusive, drunk, drugged and not giving a damn...
...play it as safe as humanly possible, the producers imported the host straight from the Brits too—no friendly banter with the host, no sympathetic encouragement from cuddly Reege, not even a trace of the good old American dream. This time it was all about authenticity??if we were going to get “The Weakest Link,” we were going to get every last bit of it, even if it meant enduring unpleasant tongue-lashings from that most terrifying of dragonladies, Anne Robinson. The effect, of course, is wonderfully comical. Robinson?...