Word: copious
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...Meyer’s departing associates, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, have consistently led the management company’s copious and oft-criticized payrolls. The pair of bond managers, whose stellar returns have served as the backbone of the endowment’s recent surge, pulled in $25.4 million and $25.3 million, respectively, last fiscal year...
Director Ben D. Margo ’05 and cast have tried to instill new life in Caligula by placing it in a modern office and adding copious ‘80s-inspired dance numbers. Although this is very interesting aesthetically, the play seems to lose a bit of its original intent. Margo seems unable to decide whether he wants to satirize Caligula, or make it horribly profound...
...movies it is particularly understated and director David Goyer (the writer of the first two films) keeps Blade going at a quick, clipped pace. It is a product of its genre, the comic-book movie, and in that sense it accomplishes its goals. It is action-packed. It involves copious explanations of weapon use. And it features a truly haunting sequence set at a vampire blood-bank that finally has the guts to honestly address America’s burgeoning homeless problem...
...with seemingly little to no percussion dividing it up (let alone any trace of the pervasive drum torrents of the previous track) and no clear song structure at all, strikes the listener as specifically designed for one in a meditative or transcendent state, or someone who has recently consumed copious amounts of psychotropic substances that would allow them to get to the bottom of what exactly the Boredoms are trying to say with this song. I guess the traditional adage is appropriate here, that “you can’t expect transparency from a band whose last album...
...vocalists Carolyn Mark and Kelly Hogan—take on several different styles in this remarkably diverse collection. The opening track “If You Knew” features bold vocals over an Ennio Morricone-esque groove that is augmented by Rauhouse’s tremendous feel and copious amounts of reverb and tremolo. “Hex” has more of an old-time high lonesome country groove thanks largely to the dobro playing but also to the acoustic guitar strumming that complements Case’s slightly sweetened vocal stylings. Finally, Case delivers a tremendous Grace...