Word: crisped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...streets of Dujiangyan the rescue troops are ubiquitous. Military vehicles are lined up, and People's Armed Police and People's Liberation Army soldiers, kitted out in crisp, matching green camouflage, are battling rain and rubble as they try to reach trapped survivors and control emotional crowds. On a downtown street corner a group of armed police kept people back as a ladder truck lifted rescuers up to the sixth floor of a damaged apartment building. An old man peered through a window, waiting to be taken out. But when the ladder arrived he turned and ran back into...
...that fanfared “The Tipping Point” have disappeared, replaced by the icy production values that “Game Theory” hinted at. The album’s sonics are unrelentingly bleak: everything’s minor-key. Drummer ?uestlove’s usual crisp snare work has to wade through a sea of fuzzy synths to make itself heard. While a headphone album is nothing new for the Roots, the unenergetic electronic textures get claustrophobic quickly. The album features vocalist cameos, but it doesn’t have a melody to speak of. This...
...laughs. “Have a little faith.” The clock reads 7:42 p.m., and it’s time for us to head across the Charles to Eleganza. Adelman tucks a flask conveniently into her clutch and steps out into the crisp night. Faithful as she is, Adelman knows as well as anyone that sometimes all the Harvard scene requires is a little assistance. When we arrive at the Bright Hockey Center, a large catwalk has replaced the ice in preparation for Eleganza, a student-run fashion show and one of Harvard’s most...
...would some day open. They had heard the amateur, now discarded plans of my initial dreaming: the sushi bar built over a tank of live fish (how postmodern!); the dumpling restaurant with a twist, where mac and cheese or duck l’orange would be served up in crisp wonton wrappers or savory shumai shells (titled, for its brief reign in theoretical existence, “Dim Sumthing Else”). A few lucky listeners had even become privy to my newest conception of culinary excellence, still turning and tweaking, and much too precious for the pages of such...
...BU’s a great team and we got [the win] tough.”Showing no signs of complacency after winning the Ancient Eight North Division the previous weekend, the Crimson started brightly against its opponents.“I thought we came out really crisp today,” said captain and pitcher Shelley Madick. “Now that we know we have clinched the division, we were really looking to sharpen our game up and fine-tine things before we head into the championship next weekend. “I think that we all came...