Word: crisping
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Joseph Odiambo walks decisively past eight plots of corn and comes to a stop in front of the ninth. Where the other plants towered sugar-cane thick with broad crisp blades, here the plants are skinny and stunted, draped with yellow-tinged leaves. The contrast is deliberate, an advertisement for the wares Odiambo sells from his roadside supply shop in western Kenya. While the shopkeeper's robust plots were planted with commercial seed and carefully nurtured with inorganic fertilizer, his sickly specimens are the result of seeds sown in the bare ground. "We wanted to have a control plot...
...Manhattan's most ambitious new player has to be Co. (pronounced "company") in Chelsea, whose crisp white tables and pale wood-paneled interior serve as a modern palette for an equally contemporary menu. Partially owned by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Co., located in the Chelsea neighborhood, owes its true buzz - and bona fides - to chef Jim Lahey, who owns the beloved Sullivan Street Bakery, a New York City institution...
...Leonard Nimoy), who was bullied on Vulcan for having a human mother (Winona Ryder, seemingly still in character and costume from a Grey Gardens audition) and chose to take refuge in the Starfleet Academy. Then comes Uhura (Zoe Saldana), who rejects Kirk's leering come-on with just the crisp efficiency you'd expect...
...disciplined. This is not you. He's crisp. This is not you.' LESLEY STAHL, CBS News correspondent, enumerating to Vice President Joe Biden the differences between him and Barack Obama...
...show, however, is its spectacular musical talent. Berg and Tishfield give especially stellar performances. As Joe, a dockworker on the boat, Nicholas Christopher, Jr. delivers a stunningly noteworthy performance of the musical’s leitmotif, “Ol’ Man River.” His surprisingly crisp and sonorous baritone (surprising because Christopher is of a slight build) wholly conveys the soulful resignation of the song’s pith. The pit orchestra also impresses, notably flaunting the student talent of the Boston Conservatory. Without missing a beat, the music infuses the performance with richness...