Word: geared
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...maturity? No way, says Miller, 24, who proved it a couple of months ago by running his car into a tree. Oh, he wasn't in it. Uh-oh, no one was--Miller started the car, in gear, without getting in. Besides, he says, "I'm skiing really similar to the way I've been skiing for the past five years. I still crash out of races...
...matters. Lapalco’s appropriately titled opener “Tiny Spark” greets with random electronica samples from the mid-1980s, but then rolls over into an upbeat, self-confessing rocker that is quintessential road music. Instead of upping the ante, Benson then moves down a gear into “Metarie,” a frankly earnest ballad about the first, halting steps of a burgeoning relationship. Folky guitars, ascending chromatic tones and backing-singer Emma J’s plaintive voice lend the track a haunting, ethereal quality, but for want of a female vocalist...
After a moment’s hesitation, he heads for the driver’s seat. She gulps. He slips the car into gear. The Benz purrs...
...still night in Kabul, two weeks ago, Marine guards in full combat gear at the U.S. embassy were startled by the whoosh of a fireball exploding underneath wintry trees at the far end of the diplomatic compound. The resident bomb-disposal expert decided to wait until dawn before venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit...
Unfortunately for the Crimson (9-8-3, 8-5-2 ECAC), it was stuck in first gear the whole time...