Word: harps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contrast to Tricky’s swerve back into the mainstream, Björk has taken a subtle left turn up her own secret street and found yet another playground, with its own female choir and Zeena Parkins on harp. With computer mix duo Matmos assisting with the intricately layered gurgles and rattles that serve Björk where others are reduced to hitting skins with sticks, Björk wraps her voice around you and seduces you entirely. Where Tricky mixes himself into the background in favor of his collaborators, Björk knows that it is only...
...assignments. Coach was very encouraging about the few jokes I did send him. Though he didn't like my bit on how we should drill in barren Alaska instead of Texas, where they have people and baseball teams, he liked the ones about how only tiny women play the harp, why hotels give you shower caps and sewing kits but no toothpaste, and how bathroom signs are the only places in society where a thin, barrel-chested man can be next to a dumpy woman shaped like a triangle. I was feeling pretty good about myself until he complimented...
...beyond the charming profits that come from high ratings, in corrupting the investigative functions of journalism and diverting its resources to sensational but essentially insignificant stories? One hears this more and more. Dan Rather made a small gesture toward the older, solider traditions of journalism when he declined to harp on the Chandra Levy/Gary Condit story on his CBS Evening News...
...RUSSIA Seal Cubs Face Mass Starvation Freak weather has stranded hundreds of thousands of baby seals on ice floes in the White Sea. Russian scientists said that unusually strong winds had prevented up to 200,000 baby harp, or Greenland, seals from floating to their normal feeding grounds in the Barents Sea. "Their mass death from hunger is inevitable," said a Polar Institute scientist, adding that even if some cubs could be saved, no money was available for their rescue...
Familiarly known as the black stuff, kegs of Guinness stout share space under the bar with Smithwick’s, Harp, Carlsberg and Budweiser. Over the years, it’s been rationed to pregnant women, offered to blood donors and likened to mothers’ milk. For me, it was the first alcoholic drink with any appeal. Dark as chocolate with a creamy head and a bitter, coffee-like taste... It was love from first...