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...just the first few seconds, the single reminds those who watched MTV in the early ’90s what they are missing with the current obsession with boy bands and bare bellies. The first rumblings of Kurt Cobain’s low, searching voice, balanced by a thumping bass and percussion rhythm reminiscent of a heartbeat, are achingly familiar...
...Find a way to bottle the raw sexual heat between Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel and pure reason...
This isn’t a musical exactly—it’s maybe best described as a play with songs. While writing this play and the last one, some material leapt out in meter, or with a melody, or with a bass-and-percussion rhythm attached. Music and song evoke responses in us that straight text doesn’t, and vice-versa. I keep finding myself wanting to juxtapose text and song, but not in a new-music-opera way. I’m too much of a text-bound creature for that...
Well, at least I didn’t have to suffer through the acrobatics of Warren Moon and Kevin Bass the whole time I lived in Houston. The Rockets won it all twice, and the Dream Shake became a national phenomenon. The Astros separated themselves from the rest of the Central in the late ’90s, and the Killer B’s became regular playoff contenders (who inevitably choked in the first round, but that’s not the point). The heinous Bud Adams left town with the Oilers in tow, and we have a brand...
...also provide scholars with ideas and ways of thinking that they might not otherwise have considered, many say. “Our primary responsibility is teaching and research, but a certain amount of public engagement can enrich public work,” Michael J. Sandel, Harvard College professor and Bass professor of government, writes in an e-mail, explaining that serving on the President’s Council on Bioethics made him aware of a whole new range of ethical issues and concerns, which he now covers in Government 90rw, “Ethics and Biotechnology...