Word: crisped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unicorn ("With the white unicorn across her shoulder/ Makes you think that she might have been someone who's older") that are no less fun for being totally incomprehensible. What raises their unironic embrace of classic-rock cliché above the bar of mere cuteness is frantic musicianship and the crisp wail of singer Andrew Stockdale...
...fourth movement’s “Thunderstorm” was the most convincing with its crisp brass pronouncements of thunder and windy string runs...
Haviland, the Harvard ace, tossed all ten frames in what is supposed to be a seven-inning contest, allowing one earned run over 149 pitches. With a crisp fastball pounding down-and-in and his usual knee-buckling curve, he struck out six while allowing just six hits and three walks...
...results are surprising. I haven't been crazy about Kodak cameras' picture quality of late, but the 6-megapixel V610 took some terrific pictures. Outdoors at full zoom, shots were crisp and clear. Indoors, where Kodak's compact cameras tend to have more trouble, shots came out clean, without the blurring or graininess that sometimes occurs. In fact, I tested the Kodak alongside the chunkier Panasonic's Lumix TZ1, and the Kodak outperformed the TZ1 shot for shot. I was not expecting that...
...that perfectly embodied the traditional Fosse atmosphere. The execution and choreography, however, were both far too influenced by the modernistic creativity flowing through the rest of the show. The dance itself had the wrong emotional texture, and the movements were too flowy and extended to lay claim to the crisp style of Fosse. By the end of the number, after the addition of bowler hats, canes and white gloves under blacklight, the piece was nearly a tribute, but the flirty theatricality of character was consistently lacking—except for in featured dancer Madelyn...