Word: elicit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...site was launched on April 2nd as a place for “smart users to find love.” Although fasDate does not stand for Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the name, an acronym for “find-a-smart-date,” may elicit a chuckle from you computer-savvy programmers out there as written in CamelCase. More details after the jump...
...AIDS. Jonah C. Priour ’09 does a remarkable job with Prior’s decline, presenting him as disheartened but determined to retain composure and a sense of humor no matter the cost. He comes the closest of any of the actors to being able to elicit both tears and laughter from the audience within seconds of each other.Another standout performance is that of Benjamin K. Glaser ’09 as Roy Cohn, the mean-spirited conservative lawyer in denial about his homosexuality and AIDS affliction. Roy is not a likeable character, and when the veins...
...quick glance at the Harvard baseball team’s record after its first series of the season—a four-game set this weekend against Jacksonville State in Jacksonville, Ala.—might elicit a heavy sigh from the viewer, indicating a resigned preparedness to watch the Crimson struggle through another difficult campaign.But Harvard’s 1-3 mark is slightly misleading. The Crimson’s production at the plate—which was virtually nonexistent during certain stretches last season—appears to be in top form, and a few isolated meltdowns overshadowed...
Harris didn't seem particularly thrilled about the query either. His initial response was "I was very much hoping we wouldn't get that question," though he did manage to elicit chuckles from the parents with this wry bit of humor...
...compliance with cliched notions of marketable hip-hop songs. The grand master consistently becomes ensnared in sounds and influences that are not his own. Saddler, who debuted his craft at block parties and nightclubs throughout the South Bronx in the 1970s, puzzlingly indulges in bass-laden, ominous beats that elicit doomsday scenarios and desolate imagery. “What if hip-hop was never born?” an electronically slurred voice asks on “What If,” before KRS-One delves into a harrowing description of this hypothetical world. Another portion of the album...