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...outside hitter Melissa Forcum led the Crimson with 10 kills and 11 digs, and co-captain Kate Nash had 12 digs. Princeton outside hitter Rose Kuhn chalked up 19 kills and 15 digs, and sophomore outside hitter Sabrina King had 13 kills and 14 kills to contribute to the Tiger attack...
...third game sealed the Crimson's fate. Although Forcum (seven kills) and Nash (19 assists, seven digs) attempted to rejuvenate the team, the relentless attack of the Tiger front line continued. An ace by Princeton senior Emily Brown with the Tigers leading 13-10 killed the Crimson rally, and Princeton...
...matter. Mitchell is in a good mood and in good voice, and she delivers a jazzy, ebullient set, floating through a few songs from her latest CD, Taming the Tiger. Then, alone with her guitar, she offers up a spare, resonant reading of her gently anthemic song Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even...
Taming the Tiger doesn't sound like anything else on the radio right now; that's both the CD's strength and its burden. Mitchell refuses to rest easily in the folk-pop genre she helped establish. Tiger is composed of crystalline tones: breezy guitars that ring like wind chimes; crisp, jazzy vocals. A few of the songs attack pop radio ("Boring!" she sings). On other numbers Mitchell gets more personal, recounting her mother's disapproval of a live-in boyfriend. Mitchell's reply: "For God's sake!/I'm middle-aged, Mama." And on the album's best song...
...time when acts like 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys cavort in the upper reaches of the charts like kids atop a treehouse, a CD such as Taming the Tiger, whose title song was inspired by 18th century poet William Blake, is a tough sell--unless you're selling it to fans of 18th century English poetry. But Joni will be Joni when the trends have trended out. To paraphrase Blake, she still burns bright...