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...here: “The record is meant to sound like a not quite 12 year old lapsed piano student girl’s version of the Black Sabbath or Birthday Party or Bauhaus or the Pil Flowers of Romance records she’s never actually heard, just overheard her older sister and her friends Talking About [sic] behind the slammed-shut bedroom door. The girl goes down and bangs on the piano in anger and boredom, singing of lost loves she never knew and world-weariness she never felt, etc. That is the scene or theater of this...
Leaving the screening for “The Sentinel” I overheard the guy next to me say, “Coming in, I was all super-hyped for some ‘24’ type of shit. And it wasn’t up to that. But it was good...
...ejected “out of the chamber for being out of order.” Haddock rejected the motion. “People are being offensive... I think it is appalling,” UC Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07 could be overheard telling Haddock during the meeting. Seemingly at the direction of Adelman, several council members used parliamentary tactics to delay a vote while other council members frantically called student group leaders to attend the council meeting. By the time they had exhausted parliamentary procedure, UC members had successfully courted several members...
...than clapboard and paint. Sound-absorbing material in the walls and carpeted flooring will dampen normal conversation, he says, and white noise generators should cancel out the din of Salient editorial meetings. I expect that if one were to shout at the top of his lungs he would be overheard, but for the most part, organizations’ conversations will be confidential...
...from across the hall. This brave soul was buttoned-up in a simple ensemble he might have purchased at the Gap, in contrast to the alterna-duds others were sporting. Abstaining from the bubbly, he light-heartedly mocked the celebrants with a sarcastic take on a protest chant overheard at an anti-Summers rally. “Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Larry, Larry, go away!” he shouted. “Larry spits the truth, yo,” he added. –Daniel J. Mandel