Word: cranked
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When the Rolling Stones crank up their guitars at the HMS Tamar exhibition ground in November, they'll be blasting out a message that Hong Kong wants the whole world to hear: the territory has shaken off the SARS scare and is once again open for business?and pleasure. After a nightmarish spring and summer when it was ground zero for severe acute respiratory syndrome, Hong Kong is quickly reclaiming its position as one of Asia's biggest tourist draws...
...North Koreans have raised the stakes on the U.S. by announcing new nuclear achievements, and there are considerable grounds for fearing that Pyongyang may once again play hardball. If so, the U.S. will hope that the exercise at least impresses on the host nation, China, the need to crank up the pressure on its wayward protege...
...Neptunes remain hybrid people. A typical Neptunes track might mix classic rock riffs and hip-hop beats with '80s pop-culture remnants (like sound effects from Atari games or the rings from early mobile phones). For pop artists looking for urban credibility--your Timberlakes, Aguileras et al.--the Neptunes crank up the beat and the attitude. On the flip side, they imbue hard rappers with much needed emotional depth. "We want people to sound different," says Williams, who made the menacing Mystikal sound funky on Shake Ya Ass and Snoop Dogg almost tender on Beautiful. "Taking somebody from...
SUNTAN. Boston’s own space rockers crank up effects-laden guitars supplemented with organ swells to forge a new path for psychedelia. What the group lacks in bass they compensate with effects and the occasional violin sample. Also performing are Victory at Sea, Kingsbury Manx, and Jeffery Simmons & The Symptoms. Friday, August 15, 9 p.m. $8. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...over," he says. Here comes the great German beer shakeout. At last count, the country had 1,279 breweries, or nearly 75% of all those in the E.U. But Sailer estimates, based on conversations with peers, that one-third of those in his home state, Bavaria, only manage to crank out beer because they subsidize production costs with income from their real-estate holdings. He's managed to survive by repositioning Traunstein as a trendy regional "premium" brew, and by partnering with several tiny brew-pubs. For most German brewers, however, the rule seems...