Word: crude
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everyone's having 70s flashbacks. Stocks sold off across the board Tuesday, with the Dow losing another 49 points, the S&P dropping 10 and the NASDAQ losing 58 (although techs are dealing with internal earnings issues more than geopolitical ones). Crude oil prices, meanwhile, hit six-month highs during Tuesday's session, and coal, natural gas and pipeline stocks followed suit to become the new hot tickets of the week...
...serious jobs, but they're missing the point. Multitools are about expecting the unexpected. When you and your buddies find yourselves locked out of your Honda Civic in the parking lot of TGI Friday's at 3 a.m., you want to be the guy who can fashion a crude lockpick using only a beer can and that wire-crimper thingy on your Leatherman...
...very fact that a number of worthies have seen fit to trumpet their own impeccably high standards by suspending or canceling roles and engagements in which Goodwin would have performed both brilliantly and honorably suggests a rather crude moral and scholarly calculus on their part, but that is a subject for another time. My only purpose here is to help set the record straight by speaking up, as one scholar who values his own integrity and reputation for meticulous attribution as much as anyone could, for one of the truly outstanding historians of our time, who eloquently brings to life...
...Audio, Lord lived as a squatter in a room where the heat was operated by an electricity meter that ran on 50-pence coins. One day a street musician asked her to hold his guitar while he went to the bathroom. Lord, whose guitar skills at the time were crude at best, took the opportunity to play one of the few songs she knew, John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery.” “I really sucked,” she recalls in an interview a few days after the Newbury appearance. When...
...from the same black cloth. Their sense of impunity, of adolescent entitlement, of imagined roguish grandeur are identical - even if the size of their respective stages are different. For that reason, they should be treated the same. Slap them down, lock them up, expose them for the small and crude things they almost always are. For our own sakes, however, let's stop making them the giant figures we seem to need them...