Word: crowning
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...walks back outside to his band and points to the golden trumpet. But he has forgotten something inside.“Wait. Hold on,” Fountain says. He ducks back into his garage and and emerges wearing a huge sombrero and clutching a 1.75-liter bottle of Crown Royal Whiskey. As he pours it into a glass with ice, his face is completely concealed by the straw hat’s brim. He looks up, drinks the liquid. Above him, a campaign sign reads, “We’re Home.”Sometimes Fountain sits...
...March 27]. Two weeks ago, I saw a performance of Macbeth in which all of the roles were played by men. What made it even odder was that they were all totally nude from the first to the last second of the play. Well, sometimes Macbeth had a cardboard crown on his head, and occasionally Lady Macbeth wore a very long wig, but that was all. When "she" took it off, there was Lady Macbeth with short blond hair and a penis. The stage was covered in gore and what I think was supposed to be human excrement. The standing...
Harvard has quite the task in front of it if the program is to begin a new streak of sorts. The Crimson lost four oarsmen from last year’s varsity eight, which won the varsity’s first Sprints crown since 1997. The second varsity—which boasts two years of undefeated dual racing capped with two consecutive Sprints titles—must overcome the loss of four more to graduation...
...Crimson barely nudged both Yale and Cornell to claim the 2005 Sprints crown. The top four finishers at last year’s Sprints—Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Navy—will again be fighting for the mere inches of space that so often separate first from second in the EARC...
Arizona is one of the players that has turned the entire soft-drink industry on its head. Teas, sports drinks, bottled water and energy drinks, once considered niche players, are driving the market, while the once invincible colas have lost their crown. "Carbonated beverages are in serious trouble," says Tom Pirko, president of BevMark, an industry consulting firm. Shipments of soda slipped 0.7% in 2005, says Beverage Digest--the first annual decline in 20 years. Coca-Cola's flagship, Coke Classic, was down 2%; Pepsi-Cola fell 3.2%. And soda is absorbing some of the blame for America's obesity...