Word: grind
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...courtiers in Pontormo or Parmigianino, most of them as slender as greyhounds, are nothing like El Greco's rough-cut saints, famished men with skin the color of split timber and stiff robes draped around them like crumpled fenders. And while the Mannerist palette, all that coy bump and grind of pink and yellow, is calculated sometimes to startle, the explosive oddity of El Greco is something else altogether. In his magnificent late canvas The Adoration of the Shepherds, the yellows and crimson, acid green and purple, jammed together to ecstatic effect, are so artificial that they give parts...
RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE. The group, whose latest album was a great success, performs with The Accursed, Terminally, Your Aborted Ghost and Magruder Grind. Hear the latest in indie music with this brand-new lineup. Saturday, August 2 at 9 p.m. $8. 18+. Upstairs, The Middle East, 472 Mass...
Kelly was no meek back-room brain. As former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, he was described by colleagues as a "consummate professional," tough enough to grind down Iraqis who tried to stymie the inspections. Was he hiding something or being pressured to? Or, given what colleagues describe as his ironclad commitment to telling the truth, did he regret what he had told the BBC or the committee? Or was he simply the victim of crippling depression? Blair, asking for "respect and restraint," announced a high-level judicial inquiry into Kelly's death, as the rest of the country awaited...
...Kelly was the source, declared that "we accurately interpreted and reported the factual information obtained by us during interviews with Dr. Kelly." This doesn't tally with Kelly telling his bosses that he hadn't impugned Campbell to Gilligan. Described as a "consummate professional" by colleagues, tough enough to grind down Iraqi officers who were trying to stymie weapons inspections, Kelly was nevertheless not a major player in producing the dossier on Iraqi weapons. He supplied mostly historical information for the document. He would certainly have heard rumblings in Whitehall that the intelligence services were unhappy about the way their...
Predictable, yes, but far from boring, these elevator rides have become part of the grind. The key is knowing the system, keeping to yourself—and above all, praying they don’t break down...