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High-spirited sparring gave way to something more sullen when Franklin was sent off to a Christian boarding school on Long Island, New York. "Whatever was expected of the student body, I wanted to do the opposite," he says. "I got a kick of staying one step ahead of the 'law.'" If Billy was the ultimate preacher, then Franklin made a run at being the ultimate Preacher's kid: fighting, taunting the police of Montreat into high-speed car chases and cultivating a fascination for firearms and rock music and a taste for hard liquor. By the time he managed...
...Pharcyde ended the major part of their set with the single "Runnin,'" a good choice to leave a positive memory for the audience. What sets the song aside as a radio hit is the amazing harmonization that gives it a kick. But the group followed in line with the rest of the mediocre set by not even singing the harmony--a disappointment to say the least. This part of the song was left to a recording...
Even when they are ensconced in a family, men are spending more of their time in a special guy world of their own. A decade or so ago, there was just baseball and football. Then came basketball, soccer, tennis, kick boxing and "ultimate fighting"--filling in every month of the year and every hour of the day on espn and its clones. Not since the Crusades has it been possible for Western Man to spend so much time in the male-play realm of hoarse cheers and mortal competition...
...m.p.h. and four Gs. And then, dear Lord!, you slam back down at negative gravity, your body pleading to soar through the restraints. Up and down you go a few more times in decreasing extremes. The whole thing, which lasts 31 sec., is a great, bearable kick. It's like experiencing, at warp speed, a manic-depressive attack. It is, one imagines, a lot like being inside Bob Stupak's head...
These performances were just a few of the many events going on yesterday at the kick-off of Harvard's fourth annual Arts First Weekend...