Word: climbing
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...year-old Hilary Duff, also known as Lizzie McGuire from the Disney Channel television series and feature film. In addition to her media career expansion into music—her album Metamorphosis was released this summer and catchy single “So Yesterday” continues to climb top-40 charts—Duff now also serves as the spokesperson for an organization that protects wild horses. And though the “So Yesterday” lyrics tell the heart-wrenching tale of a love lost and soon to be forgotten, demand for the Duff brand...
...Michelangelo’s David. And Borges’ Funes. His Jaromir Hladik. Jay is tortured because it’s lonely at the top, but conscious that he can go no further, climb no higher, get no better. Meanwhile, we’re forced to adjust our standards, reconciling Jay-Z’s raps with “real” poetry—which presumably reach a level of emotion and enlightenment that hip-hop could never approach. He’s just talking about himself the whole time, isn’t he? About how great...
...carry his tray at dinner because he has the crutches,” Edwards says, trying to put as positive a spin on the situation as possible. “I gave him the bottom bunk so he wouldn’t have to climb...
...history and the numbers are any indication, there’s even more reason to believe that this could be the year that the surging Crimson break Princeton’s streak. In every year of Harvard’s steady climb up the Ivy ladder, the Crimson has directly leapfrogged the team that ranked ahead of them the year before...
...maybe not so hopeless. The trio enters into a sweet-spirited menage a trois, and the Weltschmerz-laden song ascends the charts, but with this odd bullet attached: quite a few people have it on the record player when they commit suicide. The song's climb prefigures Nazism's rise--and the demise of the old, gemutlich Europe symbolized by the restaurant...