Word: cladding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...We’re trying to attract a lot of attention to biking and make people think of it less as spandex-clad speedsters and more as a way to get around,” said David M. Watson, executive director for MassBike...
...Blagojevich's aptitude for politics and self-promotion is on display every Sunday, when he hosts a raucous, rant-heavy radio show for an AM station in Chicago's Loop. As a chief executive, Blagojevich, 52, earned a checkered reputation, but over the airwaves his gifts are self-evident. Clad in a burgundy polo shirt, his signature hair standing at attention, he is focused, energized and relentlessly on message, fusing ward-style populism with a preacher's rhythmic cadences as he blasts the cabal of politicians responsible for his ouster. Not since Holden Caulfield has the word phony gotten such...
...above all others it is John C. Reilly who steals the show. Clad in a flowing red cape and tight showman pants, Reilly as Crepsley manages to control the flow of the plot without sullying himself in its clichés. In addition to supplying the quips that help to develop the comedic aspects of the film, Crepsley’s cynicism also provides alternative messages to the film’s more obvious moral points about diversity: as a vampire who has lived for 200 years, he philosophizes that “life may be meaningless, but death...
...groups to emerge from that movement, sweater-clad, skinny-white-boy duo Kings of Convenience—otherwise known as Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe—have found the most commercial success. Critical acclaim up to this point has been well-deserved: their delicate guitar strumming, occasionally infused with piano, horns, and violin, channels the pared-down acoustics of Pink Moon-era Nick Drake and warm harmonizing of Simon & Garfunkel into gentle, unassumingly beautiful melodies. Øye, the Paul Simon of the pair, sings in a slightly accented baritone about girls he?...
...past, Darkhawk has tried to win the “Aruba Poker Classic” package, which includes airfare and a week-stay at a hotel, all advertised with the help of scantily clad females. “I was kinda close,” Darkhawk says. “I was getting really excited. It’s not like going to a poker tournament—it’s like a vacation.” He says the “Caribbean Poker Adventure” sounded pretty good, too. For many professionals, such luxuries are close...