Word: briefed
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Junior running back Chris Menick did have a brief butterfingers relapse, losing the ball on a pitch right in the first quarter. But overeager Dartmouth end Dan Hutchinson booted the loose ball while attempting to scoop it up. He kicked it 15 yards downfield, where the Crimson managed to recover...
...brief, because of the value of comparison. Australia was the last, and North America the second to last, of the habitable continents to be colonized by Europeans sharing what was essentially a common art tradition. Both continents in the 19th century were still largely wilderness. So how did the painting of wilderness, and of its ordering, play out in both places? What kinds of values were assigned to landscape by the respective artists? What images arose from the colonists' desire to claim the land, to "humanize" it, to put their stamp on it? How did the white invaders...
...unique feature of Galway's concerts is the introduction he makes before each piece he performs. These are usually humorous bits giving a brief history of the work. Examples include the tale of the Emperor and flute addict Frederick the Great and his teacher Quantz, which introduced the Bach Sonata in E major for Flute and Basso Continuo, (BWV 1035) and the dangerous nature of dancing in the baroque period, which introduced Couperin's La Pie'montoise. According to Galway, one wrong movement of the finger could cause a person to literally lose his or her head. These comic lectures...
...when I noticed that the disc of Eat More Pussy is decorated with a knife and fork. Variety isn't a strong point, either; all the songs sound basically the same. Often, the only way I could tell that one song had ended and another had begun was the brief period of feedback which opens nearly every song, a habit I found to be too juvenile and hackneyed for the level of music they were performing...
Born in London in 1979, I was a Thatcher baby, and, notwithstanding John Major's brief and uninspired coda to Conservative rule, I lived in Thatcher's England for 12 years. The daughter of a greengrocer, Thatcher gave liberals on both sides of the Atlantic pause as the first working class female leader of a major Western power. She was mighty, once, of course. But less ambiguously, I would simply say that she was One Tough Lady...