Word: hat
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...families always have to do an awkward two-step between being entertaining and informative. Under the Sea 3-D splashes down clearly on the entertaining side, and environmentalists might take exception to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! approach it takes to its subject. There's a dutiful hat-tip to the threat coral reefs face from global warming, without any substantive advice on what a concerned moviegoer could do about it. Nevertheless, it's quite a parental high to see wonder on the face of a child. Even behind the weirdo glasses...
...personal biographies as "old-hat, outdated and counterproductive," so Blossom Dearie, 82, the canary-voiced jazz and cabaret singer, preferred to talk about her future. Often that was her next gig. Her repertoire included songs for Schoolhouse Rock and standards like Dave Frishberg's "Peel Me a Grape...
...mile detour, around the White House and parade route, we made the six blocks along Constitution Avenue and reached the purple ticket entry gate. The time was 10:00 am, and 1st street was a mob scene. Thousands of people—white, black, Hispanic; political professionals and church hat-donning locals beside families from Alaska—pressed against each other in the street in a “line” lacking order and forward movement. Everybody had heard a different rumor: the section was full and even ticket-holders would no longer be admitted; the metal detectors...
...determine just how easily an all-hat-no-cattle leader can take control of employees, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, devised a pair of tests. Cameron Anderson, an associate professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations, along with doctoral candidate Gavin Kilduff, recruited a group of 68 graduate students and divided them into four-person teams. To eliminate the wild card of gender, the teams were either all-male or all-female. Each group was given the task of organizing an imaginary nonprofit environmental organization; the group that did best - as determined by the researchers - would...
...center of the room, a handful of youngsters gather around a thumping sound system and swap French slang-infused lyrics over a heavy hip-hop beat. Reclining on a nearby sofa, sporting a black leather jacket and yellow athletics pants, his short dreadlocks covered by a furry ushanka hat, British musician Tricky - the one responsible for this scene - is beaming. "It's wicked," he says. "People just come in and chill out. It's like a clubhouse." (See pictures of an urban adventure in Paris...