Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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From the start, something is wrong. Two songs go by without Lydia's signature guitar playing and manic singing. The music is stripped down farther than Teenage Jesus dared go without losing their punk audience. The bass carries most of the melody. Piano and saxophone add counterpoint. Slow, crashing drums deemphasize the Teenage approach even more...
WHEN THE CRIMSON two weeks ago printed a picture of two Black students with bars superimposed, we unquestionably made a grave mistake--both a wrong against the two individuals and an insensitive act to Blacks in general...
...worst part of the day was after dinner when the Spa provided a nightclub act which THEY were convinced was chosen specifically to irritate the hell out of them. Something was wrong with every show and they would start talking loudly while the act was on stage, only to be countered by noisy, wet "sssh"ing. Before long the comedian ("He's talking down to us." "Ssshhh") or the duo ("Her voice is too loud" "Sssshh") couldn't be heard at all. And that's when they started walking out. ("You can't hear these people...
...they loved Bobby Barbash, the hotel emcee, who before the show each night sang, "After the Loving" and "I Did it My Way." He belted out those songs, imitating Dean Martin, every single night to rousing applause and a few wet eyes. Bobby could do not wrong--spill steaming coffee down Bertha's back, or worse, call the same bingo number twice in a row--the man in the wallpaper tuxedo was the perfect son who never left mother and sang to her every single night of her life...
Professor Richard Pipes and I clearly have fundamental disagreements on the current crisis and its relations to efforts at nuclear arms control and arms reduction. In his recent letter (Crimson, 4 March), he side-stepped these disagreements and instead makes the general claim that I get many things quite wrong. He then goes on to pull one idea out of the context of the article, which deals not with SALT in any narrow sense, which any reader will have recognized since Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, etc., are all discussed, and as a means of demonstrating my unreliability...