Word: horned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pairs of Prada sunglasses, sipping rum-and-tonics by the sea. For all intents and purposes, I think we looked pretty cool, but after the experiences of one fateful evening, we sunk into the inevitable effluvium of dorkdom. No matter how many girls sported this season’s horn-handled Gucci bag and how many boys showed off brand new tailored Nantucket Reds, the Harvard within stood out like Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter...
...Daniel, earned a major award for sailing a nine-foot dinghy from Florida to the Bahamas. And six years later, they became the first Americans ever to sail around Cape Horn in a vessel less than 30 feet long...
Launching pell-mell into an original composition, drummer Chris Dave provided an overbearing framework to “Two Down & One Across” while Garrett positively screamed into his horn. Dave repeatedly called for the piano monitor of Vernell Brown to be turned up, instead of adjusting the level of his own playing. Something was amiss. Instead of easing his audience into his jazz-pop aesthetic, Garrett’s opening was an indigestible attack. In an evening centered around compositions from Garrett’s latest album Happy People, it was hit or miss whether the group would...
...Tommy Thompson cited the nation's budget, pinched by the war on terror. The Administration also points out that it is addressing children's well-being with its pledge of $300 million to promote healthy marriages. Did the Administration try to postpone a report that could be embarrassing? Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at HHS, says that "would have been inappropriate," and he is "chalking it up to misperception." --By Jodie Morse
...impossible to doze off, however, when the band launched into a horn showcase that riffed on Metheny’s composition “Offramp.” Vu crafted a searing, unsettling sonic landscape by half-blowing, half-buzzing into his horn. He simultaneously filtered and looped the sound with a mixer at his side and proceeded to solo over the resulting vamp. Initially captivating for its ingenuity, it decayed into a druggy, hellish stream of screaming guitars, strobing lights and tumult of menacing drums. It was an unsettling, visual and auditory apocalypse that left the audience puzzling...