Word: becking
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DIED. EMILY MORISON BECK, 88, dogged editor of three editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; in Canton, Mass. Between 1952 and 1980, she scoured works of literature and history to update and refine the essential reference book. In the classics, she favored Shakespeare and the Bible, expanding the contributions from both, but also introduced quotes from Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan and popular films (e.g., "E.T., phone home...
...early rounds Broadbent cruised, defeating No. 31 seed Nate Beck of Princeton and No. 19 seed Nadeem Osman of Trinity before matching up against teammate No. 21 seed junior Michael Blumberg in the quarterfinals...
...INDICATORS Stellar Deal Belgian brewers Interbrew - makers of Stella Artois and Beck's - announced a $11.4 billion linkup with Brazil 's AmBev. The deal creates the world's largest brewer by volume, with a global market share of around...
...iTunes, this year’s hot digital music application, is shuffling aimlessly through 9126 songs on one of the computers in Zittrain’s office. Beck and the Velvet Underground, perhaps not every Ivy League professor’s artists of choice, play quietly in the background...
After tossing off some of his current rap favorites, Eyedea tellingly gives major props to a slew of reluctant mainstreamers, including Outkast (“the most important people in rap music”), Radiohead (“the best band still alive”) and the work of Beck and Sigur Ros. Like these artists, Eyedea wants to achieve success without personal compromise, a feat that may require not just building great songs but reconstructing the entire hip hop playing field...