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...references to Yeats or Ashbery, but instead constructs a veritable Who’s Who of classic rap lyricists, including Slick Rick, Ghostface Killah, and his mentor El-P. Instead of spending hours on end fine-tuning his rhyme scheme to match some stifled polyameter, Aesop’s main concern has always been to find “something I can work with, [...] then to assemble it over a beat...
These sites—namely the Cellar and the Fogg Museum, where most of the story’s main characters work—are strikingly and realistically represented in Stevens’ pen-and-ink crosshatchings. And the characters who pass through these places do behave dumbly, providing a stark narrative counterpoint to the dramatic black and white imagery...
Another layer of diversity can be seen in the varied stances these artists take towards the commercial aspects of their work. Some Harvard students make it their main life goal to get signed to a major label and tour the world, straight-up maxxin’ in stretch Hummers pouring Cris from their wrists...
...when the main act made it onstage, they revealed the surprisingly simple equation behind their recordings: a chilled-out folkie and a Dutch chamber musician, jamming like nobody’s business. There was Zammuto, a Williams College alum, half-closing his eyes to commune with an acoustic guitar. To his right sat de Jong, accented and eccentric, tearing mean riffs with his bow. At far left, frequent Book collaborator Ann Doerner offered tense keys and ethereal vocal harmonies (including a haunting Creole folk solo...
...class to take a few cuts and a few rounds of Sullivan’s multi-infield drill have long since given up any dreams of moving on to the varsity. In the absence of tryouts or the chance of stringing together enough at bats to showcase ability, the main motivator is simply the chance to play baseball, and have fun doing it. For while bat speed and command of the strike zone may have eroded, the ability to keep things light in the dugout can still be found in plentiful supply in every JV player...