Word: record
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...great record. There is the never-released Ronettes' version of Harry Nilsson's "Paradise," which for years existed only as a rumor. And an unknown April Stevens solo cut - she was usually half of a brother-sister act with sibling Nino Tempo - called "Why Can't a Boy and Girl Just Stay In Love." There is an obscure B-side known as "Torpedo Rock," a deliberately obnoxious instrumental, typical of what Spector sometimes placed on flip sides so the impact of the A-side wouldn't be diluted...
...look for this record for the next twenty years...
...find it, finally, one day in Final Vinyl, an LP treasure house in the East Village. It cost me $50, the most I'd ever paid for a record up to that time (I've paid more since). It was an anti-climax, of course - all the really great tunes were on the first one. Maybe I'd changed in the meantime, and was no longer open to the intensity I'd experienced with the original. Somehow Phil Spector had lost the ability to get me there, to put me in the flow, to peak me out. Who knows...
...Shrew features only four actors, one for Petruchio ("the tamer"), one for Kate ("the shrew"), one for Kate's sister Bianca and one for everyone else. This should be the perfect environment for the repartee between Kate and Petruchio, in the Shakespearean play that just might qualify for the record of most insults per square inch. But with lines like, "Thy husband is thy life, thy lord, thy keeper" in the conclusion, the director has some explaining to do to a modern audience. This production takes the approach that the play is more of a love story than a polemic...
Having lost its two previous Ivy matches, including last weekend's heartbreaking 2-1 overtime loss to Cornell, Harvard knows that an 0-3 Ivy record at the end of 90 minutes on Saturday would spell the death of its conference title aspirations...