Word: crisping
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...midst of the controlled chaos of practice, with couples looping in and out of each other’s paths, Oppenheimer taps her silver ballroom shoes across the floor in the brief moments of rest. Her feet move like lightning and it produces a crisp clatter that can be heard over the din of the practice room...
...tame as the main performance itself, Sung led the orchestra in the 1945 version of Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” a ballet written on commission by dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. While the BSO attacked Copland’s syncopated rhythms with crisp precision and settled upon key symphonic harmonies in layers of perfect intonation, the distinctively optimistic, Americana aura of Copland’s work made only a transient appearance. Sung’s conducting failed to coax a spacious tone from the orchestra, and poorly integrated high string-woodwind dialogues dragged...
...tradition with this band. Take the opener, “Crazy Naked Girls,” which begins with random noise that leads into a simple, maddeningly addictive riff in a manner reminiscent of Pavement’s “Silence Kit.” With crisp, brief, repeated verses and a twin-falsetto chorus—“crazy, crazy, naked girls”—it is a perfect piece of fuzz pop that is implanted in the consciousness at the first listen, before a distortion-heavy guitar solo transposes the song into the genre...
...Cohen was one of the players that stepped up. Five minutes into the third period, junior defenseman Ben Smith scooped up a ground ball on the defensive end and raced downfield. He found Cohen on the left wing where the freshman fired a shot bottom shelf. A minute later, crisp passing led to Cohen gathering the ball on the right wing, where he converted on a shot to give the Crimson a 5-1 lead. Sloppy play led to three Harvard penalties that gave Holy Cross an opportunity to get back into the game. With a two man advantage midway...
Admiral Mike Mullen is an odd one. He eschews the crisp, classic aura of command; he comes across as a no-drama, common-sense-dispensing country doctor from downstate Illinois (actually, he's the son of prominent show-biz publicists from Los Angeles). But as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mullen is still the highest-ranking U.S. military officer, and so it was a bit disconcerting to see him taking flak from a group of Afghan farmers and international agricultural experts in Kabul the first week in April. "The military is giving away free wheat seed to Afghan...