Word: dins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With entertainment provided by the Harvard Din and Tonics and refreshments donated by local businesses, spectators at the ceremony admired the new facility...
...months the company's founders have crammed 10 people into an office the size of a dorm room. There are two computers on each of the four folding tables. The employees wear headphones to muffle the din of co-workers chattering inches away from them. MongoMusic's executives hold management meetings in the middle of the room. A network cable droops from the ceiling and disappears into a hole in the wall, connecting the office to a similar one next door, where eight more headphoned employees hunch over keyboards. When the door opens and a stranger walks in, everybody looks...
...after all, needs the money to make sure Gore (or Bradley) can compete with Bush when the conventions have crowned their kings. The money hawks like McConnell are right about one thing ? in this media-saturated age, it costs plenty to make your voice heard above the din. But McCain and the reformers have a point too. If politicians spent less time hawking their souls and kowtowing to their party bosses, they?d have more left over for actual policy. Which is supposed to be why they?re trying to get to Washington in the first place...
Music, and black music in particular, have beenimportant to Goff since he was very young. Beforejoining Kuumba, Goff was a member of the Din andTonics, a mostly white world-touring a cappellaensemble. During his time in the Dins, and throughfriends' experiences with Harvard-RadcliffeDramatic Club, Goff says he realized that thepredominantly white groups had a higher level ofinstitutional knowledge about tapping into Harvardresources...
...fresh, handsome, grand. Naboo's golden underwater city glows like an Art Nouveau chandelier, while the Jedi knights' home base, Coruscant, could come from a spiffier Blade Runner. The new sidekick, a computer-birthed frog boy named Jar Jar Binks, is a vexing, endearing mix of Kipling's Gunga Din and Tolkien's Gollum, and speaks in a pidgin English ("Yousa Jedi not all yousa cracked up to be!") that will be every kid's secret language this summer. Even on paper, the film's set pieces--a 10-min. Podrace and the climactic battle between the ragged forces...