Word: acridity
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Despite occasionally receiving a low grade for an acrid vinaigrette or undercooked chicken, the students get kicks of their own. Henry Hirsch, 26, sometimes forgets that there is a world beyond the kitchen door as he sautes lamb over the hot stove at L'Ecole. "You get sick of the food back here," says Hirsch, a photographer who wants to open a restaurant of his own. "Then you look out into the dining room, and people are actually enjoying it." Especially at those prices...
...refusal to let the characters acknowledge this edgy subtext. Shanley instead provides a funny, melodramatic hubbub to distract our attention. His busy plotting may require a suspension of incredulity, but he is well served by good actors; by a director, Pat O'Connor, with a taste for the acrid flavors of big-city life; and by his own delight in human eccentricity...
While the acrid smoke still hung over Lockerbie, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the scene, as did Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The sight was extraordinary in the daylight: the cockpit resting near a church cemetery, Christmas presents never to be delivered scattered on the ground, sheep grazing in one field and policemen looking for bodies in the next. "One has never seen or thought to see anything like this," said Thatcher, visibly moved by the horror...
...Williams as he was. We want his intent, his feel, as we hear it." The band, which has recently grown to seven members, also has a maverick edge that harks back to the best rowdy traditions of country. The Trinity Session contains a startling version of Lou Reed's acrid Velvet Underground tune, Sweet Jane. The Velvets were a formative influence on the Cowboy Junkies, one that is still discernible in the unpolished precision of their playing, all those drifting Svengali chords that put on the whammy and make every tune into a three-minute trance state...
Dean of Continuing Education Michael Shinagel at Quincy House also helped initiate new measures. In 1986 a small sixth-floor blaze filled corridors of that house with acrid, toxic smoke during Christmas break...