Word: damping
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...Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups” starts the album out pleasantly enough, with synthesized strings fluttering around Pink’s echoing vocals, building up a Sunday morning haze that envelops the damp percussion—is it a drum machine or just some dude beatboxing? Lyrically he more recites blurry jingles and scraps of melody than pronounces anything particularly relevant, using his voice as just another instrument in the fray. In tone he alternates here between a fairly lucid baritone and a whining falsetto, a trend that holds up throughout the disc. This tendency toward wild fluctuations...
...crowds, braving a damp and chilly morning, lined the entire parade route in rows more than twenty people deep at some points...
Combating damp and chilly conditions all weekend, Harvard was able to place three of its golfers in the top 15. Senior J.J. Kang fired an 81-80—161 to finish in a tie for ninth, and freshman Jessica Hazlett shot an 82-82—164 to finish 15th...
...sealed steel box in which those bags will accumulate is no one's favorite job. But the cruelest chore of every morning is simply getting dressed: crawling out of a warm sleeping bag, throwing off beanie and thermals, and submitting to the clothes that are just as cold and damp as they were the night before, checking them for leeches and squelching in wet sneakers. After three days of pulling each other out of the water, sleeping side by side and mocking each other's paddling styles, we're becoming a tight team of novices, and as we struggle into...
...wonder, for the Ice Age hunters and their families here were living further south than anyone else then on the planet. Today this cave entrance looks west over a gully choked with soaring swamp gums and mottled dogwood trees, fallen logs and bark rotting at their feet under a damp smothering of moss, red mushrooms and the thick mulch of autumn's deluge of leaves. But if this art does date to the last Ice Age, its guardians - their bodies probably rubbed with a mixture of ocher and animal fat against the cold - would have looked out on a much...