Word: gearing
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...You’re Living All Over Me;” the band pleased the crowd with material from the first three albums, besides one Superchunk cover and “Wagon” off of “Green Mind.”Things kicked into high gear with Lou’s lead vocals on “Bulbs of Passion,” showing just how tragic his feud with J was. Lou’s buzzsaw attack was more distorted than any Lightning Bolt bass line. Barely 10 minutes in, an amp had already blown...
While five-year-olds and fantasy fanatics gear up for the new film adaptation of “The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe,” Alan Jacobs struggles to reveal the man behind the fairy tale in “The Narnian.” The book—part biography of C.S. Lewis and part literary critique of his works—provides greater insight into Lewis’ continuing influence on thinkers like Jacobs than it does into Lewis himself. “The Narnian” portrays Lewis as a man defined...
...Ascanio, an aeronautical engineer who had designed one of the first modern helicopters, to overhaul it. D'Ascanio hated motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis with a front fork modeled to look like landing gear. When Piaggio saw the first one in 1946, he exclaimed, ?Sembra una vespa! [It looks like a wasp...
WHEN THOMAS BURBERRY, purveyor of outdoor gear for the sports inclined, was asked by the British War Office in 1914 to adapt his service uniforms for officers to military needs, he could not have imagined that his trench coat?named for its use in the trenches of World War I?would be adopted by fashion icons like Catherine Deneuve and Chlo Sevigny. Yet Burberry, who had started off as an apprentice to a country draper in Basingstoke, England, was used to outfitting the famous. He had, after all, supplied the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen with his gabardine coats when...
...uneven new book, “Let My People Go Surfing,” Yvon Chouinard proudly boasts that the outdoor gear company he founded, Patagonia, has managed to “challenge convention wisdom and present a new style of responsible business.” Unlike the stereotypical evil business, Patagonia has managed to do “good things and make a profit without losing its soul,” Chouinard writes. This prophet of responsible capitalism promises to explain how he broke the rules and won.And the lessons are there. For instance, Chouinard stresses the importance...