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...mega-orchestral artist for the ages. Yet some aspects of “Armchair Apocrypha” aren’t improvements over Bird’s earlier work. The album seems to aspire to the grand populism of arena rock, but it loses the catchy hooks and grab-your-head lyrics that popped out of “Mysterious Production.” For example, even though the song “Dark Matter” begins with whistling that’s Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic sonics that seem plucked straight from U2?...
...number of shorts created using their technology. In particular, the films “Moon Man Newfie” and Ferguson’s “Falling in Love Again” received warm reactions. “It looked like you could actually reach out and grab the objects, and it was unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” Kimberly R. August ’10 said of “Moon Man Newfie.” Despite these apparent successes, Ferguson and Kroiter’s operation is still fairly small, with...
...balls, several styles of golf shoes, and an array of course-worthy golf apparel worn by the 22 swoosh-wielding players on the tour. With the number of golfers in the U.S. flat over the past several years, the only way for equipment makers to increase revenue is to grab market share from rivals. While still small, Nike Golf is one of the fastest growing brands in the sport, with an estimated $600 million in sales. With the introduction of its revolutionary square-headed driver, Sumo2, Nike grabbed 17.5% of the market for drivers in February...
...different guise. He has become chairman of the board of trustees of the PDP, and from that position he could control nominations for government positions and even policy and strategy. As one Western diplomat said, "He intends to sit in the passenger seat giving advice and ready to grab the wheel if Nigeria goes off course...
...just sort of smiled at her,” Opal recalled, “and thought, ‘Please go, please go, please go.’ I thought I was going to cry. I wanted her to grab me a pamphlet or something and leave...