Word: career
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...musician’s development of a uniqueand new style. O’Connor embraces allforms of American music, composingand recording in a wide array of genres,including folk, classical, and jazz. Althoughhe has had success in all ofthese genres, his desire to explore wasdiscouraged early in his career. However,O’Connor’s fusion of genres hascreated a new form of violin music. Hehopes that his creativity and synthesisof genres will inspire his fellow musicians.“I think that if you’re going to tryand create a musical movement youneed to force...
...seconds remaining, to enter halftime with a commanding 11-1 The Wildcat’s early advantage would prove to be too much for Harvard to come back from.Midfielder Michaela Hardy led New Hampshire’s charge for the opening period, netting five of her six goals, a career high.“Momentum is huge in this game,” Bobzin said. “We made a couple of mistakes early, and that pretty much set the tone for the whole game.”Harvard mounted a stronger defensive effort in the second half, holding...
...ethics of Albany.” Ironically, just two years into office, Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught spending $4,300 for a few hours with a prostitute. It appears that Spitzer, more so than Albany, needs to change his brand of ethics. Given that his was a political career shaped by a fight against corporate corruption, Spitzer’s hypocrisy is as stunning as it is disheartening. Spitzer’s resignation yesterday after a burst of public outcry was the best and only thing he could do for the state of New York. While Spitzer has tried...
...voice box andretro outfits? What are all these smokemachines and Van Buren-esque muttonchops doing in my gangsta rap video?How did Snoop’s bed gain the momentumto break Earth’s gravitational pull?Snoop Dogg has made the unusualdecision at this part of his career to resurrectthe spirit of the Zapp Band—an80s electro-funk phenomenon. A lot ofthe production on this album is a soupof keyboards and soul samples, syrupyR&B crooners, and cheesy synthesizergrooves—a collage of post-gangsta postcrunkelectro experimentation. The videofor “Sensual Seduction?...
...Spitzer's rather poetic sentence seemed apt on March 12, as he resigned as governor of New York in a brief press conference, the culmination of a 48-hour melodrama sparked by revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring. Thus ended a public career that had once seemed promising enough that Spitzer was discussed as a potential 2012 Democratic presidential nominee. Spitzer apologized for his "private failings," but he said nothing to explain why he would have thrown it all away, why he risked so much. He had built a reputation as an ethical crusader...