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...Harvard House crews seem to share have this sense of camaraderie and "sport for sport" sake--a perspective which is often harder to maintain on a varsity level...
Presumably for self-aggrandizement's sake, Gutterboy describes itself as: Active, tough, indifferent, [and] sexy" on the cover of its second album, St. Stanislaus of East 7th. Alongside this character analysis is a photograph of the five musicians standing on a city street, all cloaked in Black army boots and urban-punk regalia...
...Close By" offers less noise but replaces it with bothersome rhyming--ostensibly only for rhyming's sake. One quite comical stanza of poetic silliness is: "Ya see I've been clickin these heels to gether/hoping for a change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...
Many Black professors say they are warned aboutspecific areas--Charlestown, South Boston andsometimes the North End--that they should avoidfor safety's sake...
...sadly, Mythical Beasts is just another sneaky coloring book whose purpose is to get kids to (yawn) learn. It offers a bibliography, for Pete's sake. And some of the literary allusions are a little bit esoteric for the ordinary five-year-old monster fan. Five-year-olds are made to feel like losers if they don't remember that the Hippogriff was, of course, the animal that Ruggiero rode in Ariosto's epic, "Orlando Furioso...