Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone has seen the gargantuan billboards; not noticing them is impossible. "The Big Dig--Worth Its Wait," they proclaim to the Boston community, trying to comfort the drivers stuck in never-ending traffic, wondering which new road they'll have to take this time. But the construction that has already been going on for years still has a ways to go, and the garish billboards may not placate the angry driver who can't help but wonder: "What the hell is this `Big Dig' anyway...
Furthermore, Harvard can take comfort in the gutsy effort that it put in despite the injuries to the team. The Crimson was able to hang on to force a fifth game after losing the first game, a trend that has escaped them this season...
...track is loud, fast-paced and chock full of adrenaline; it's definitely the kind of music head-banging was made for. The music puts you in a completely jittery, violent mood. "I'm the Man," in particular, made me want to drink lots of cheap beer and Southern Comfort, go hollering down a road in a pickup truck with some loud rebel yells, bash some mailboxes with a baseball bat, and then go cow-tip-ping. (Quite an endorsement from a 5'4" Asian girl who mostly listens to Sarah McLachlan and likes to read Pablo Neruda poems...
Adelson is trying to bring a new ingredient to the basic Las Vegas hotel rooms: comfort. The bathrooms in the all-suite Venetian are the size of standard hotel rooms. He spent $9 million just to create step-down living rooms in each suite, to impart the feeling of luxury. "Las Vegas' yesterday thinking was casino-centric. The idea was to deprive guests of creature comforts to keep them in casinos," he says--no minibars, no snacks in the room, no safe-deposit boxes, no fax machines and certainly no computer hookups. Says he: "If you were hungry, they imagined...
...character." While there is truthin this generalization--which is still excessivelybroad--Lambert does not discuss the negativeaspects of being coached by such a strong persona.Would Lambert praise "willful characters" as muchas he does had Harry Parker yelled at him inperson? It is easier to make such a statement fromthe comfort of a computer rather than the chillywinds of the Charles...