Word: cranks
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...when it served his purpose to do so. "Rumsfeld's a big-enough maestro to understand that Wolfowitz was the leading edge and that someone had to do it," a Pentagon associate says. "Are there times when it made him uncomfortable? Absolutely. Are there times when he had to crank it back? Yes. But did it work for him? Clearly...
...June 1899 a letter arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "I am an enthusiast but not a crank," wrote a bicycle-shop owner from Dayton, Ohio. "I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help." The letter was from Wilbur Wright, who, with his brother Orville, wanted to build an airplane. They began with kites and gliders, built their own wind tunnel and even recalculated long-accepted physics equations. Four years later on a blustery North Carolina beach, they succeeded where all others had failed. The longest flight...
...teeming anticipation for full-lengths from !!! and Liars further demonstrates the excitement and buzz for the new school. But none of the bands in this coterie have the range and accessibility that the Rapture flaunt so brilliantly to the masses on Echoes. Other bands might crank out a more memorable anthem than “House of Jealous Lovers” (!!!’s “Me and Giuliani…” comes to mind), but none are likely to make an album as complete, as fresh, and as start-to-finish excellent as Echoes...
...with any other medium, the vast majority of music videos produced is predictably derivative rubbish. A slew of directors have made a pretty penny from scanning Hype Williams blueprints, cutting and pasting the appropriate rapper, and reprinting the formula endlessly. Prime culprits are Little X and Chris Robinson, who crank out seemingly nonstop streams of product, developing greater intimacy with their fish-eye lenses than with the artists’ music. They have created a combined total of over 150 videos for the libidinous likes of Mystikal and R. Kelly, representing the industry’s rough equivalent of Danielle...
...sites or bought from middlemen who steal them from unguarded dumps. They daisy-chain three or four together to spread out explosive power and set them along roads traveled by U.S. convoys. When the lead vehicle passes a marker, one of the men sets off the mines with a crank detonator connected to them by wires; the others provide covering fire. Lately they have begun staging more elaborate, two-phase attacks that require up to a dozen men. In these missions, after mines are set off under convoys, hidden fighters launch rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the stopped vehicles...