Word: horn
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...ends in a rocky cul- de-sac 1 1/2 miles away. Bare light bulbs dangle overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall phone. The atmosphere is that of an underground lab rather than a staging ground for Armageddon...
...love you, Ray Nagin," yells the lady in the Chevy Blazer, honking her horn and waving to the mayor of New Orleans. "God bless you, Mayor," shouts a guy in a busted pickup. It is a little after 7 a.m. and the mayor is standing in a grassy median, ignoring fumes from three lanes of rush-hour traffic to glad-hand voters in hopes of getting reelected in the city that Hurricane Katrina battered and left for dead. "Thank you, baby, need your help!" Nagin says, reaching into a car to shake hands. An African-American man in dreadlocks hops...
...Boat”, the album’s closer, does “Fury” one better in the funk department. Prince channels the spirit of James Brown and delivers a gritty call-and-response vocal performance over the jazzy stylings of a killer horn section. A number of bravura instrumental solos punctuate the six-minute mini-epic, each endeavoring to top the previous in terms of sheer technical prowess. It’s far and away the most exhilarating track on the album and easily the most fun thing Prince has recorded in a decade. And what would...
...boards and flicked the puck into the gaping goalmouth at 16:24 to ice the game. But even after that, Maine didn’t lower the pressure. Forward Brent Shepheard potted a scrappy tally with just 40 seconds remaining to account for the final tally. And as the horn sounded for the final time in Harvard’s 2005-06 season, Donato and his skaters shuffled to the locker room, thinking—once again—of what could have been. “It was one of those days,” Donato said, adding...
...prize went to the hotter non-contiguous state, as members of the Hawaii Club reached the finish line first. Alaska Klub President Corey M. Rennell ’07 hosted the event, now in its second year, armed with a megaphone in one hand and an air horn in the other. Four teams squared off at the MAC Quad for the honor of “top-dog,” outfitted in various themed clothes. The shirtless Sigma Alpha Epsilon Juggernauts sported yellow and purple body paint, the Hawaii Club brought the luau, the Mountaineering Club donned bright yellow...