Word: flatted
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Dramatically, the show feels a little padded (shorter stays and another stop on this tour might have helped), but musically, it's original and extraordinarily winning. Stew, a bald, bespectacled guitarist who leads the band and narrates, is a professorial presence onstage whose flat, prosy singing voice gives an ironic grounding to the lyrical, gently rocking melodies. He's a model of a new kind of stage composer, one neither steeped in Broadway tradition nor reacting overtly against it. "Without casting any aspersions," says Stew, "I don't think most of the so-called rock onstage sounds like anything...
...sure Amaker is trying to correct the defensive woes for the Crimson. It's not that they're playing particularly awful, they're just getting flat out-hustled by the home team. If Harvard continues to allow these easy fast-break opportunities, it's going to be a long ride up to Ithaca tonight. Columbia, shooting two, makes only one. [Columbia 48, Harvard...
...arguing about. This pattern was most visible in an unexpected exchange over whether Obama has sufficiently distanced himself from Louis Farrakhan's expressions of support for his candidacy. After Obama had said he has long denounced Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements, Clinton said Obama had to do more and flat-out reject his support. Obama, sensing a tiny opening that Clinton had carved in his performance, asked whether there was much of a semantic difference between the words "reject" and "denounce," but then defused the situation by ceding the point to Clinton and agreeing to do both...
...early and literally changing from my CIA clothes to my kitchen clogs and running over to the restaurant kitchen or the bakery twice a week,” she says. “By the end of the time I could just open the convention oven and put the flat of my hand on the cake and I could just tell by the feel of it when it was done...
...campaign co-chairman, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the Illinois Senator got the better of the exchange. "You know, this is where we start getting into silly season, in politics, and I think people start getting discouraged about it," Obama said. Clinton rejoined with an attack line that fell flat, and even drew some boos: "You know, lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in, it's change you can Xerox." And the canned line seemed even lamer after the debate, when bloggers unearthed the similarity between a line she used in that powerful...