Word: impromptue
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...seemed to be about 1:30 a.m., at the Kong, where crowds of undergrads sang along to the Counting Crows and sloshed their drinks on the architects.“It’s not all about aesthetics,” the older architect observed as an impromptu couple grinded close behind him. “It’s about a feeling of warmth, comfort, of belonging.”He smiled, looking more out of place and at the same time more satisfied than he had all night. He had not made...
...tune that thing before the next concert. Wei-Jen Yuan ’06 sensitively balanced the voicing, emphasizing essential harmonic changes in “Feux Follets” and “Harmonie du Soir” also by Liszt. Yuan also treated audiences to an impromptu performance of Franz Schubert’s “Impromptu in G-flat, opus 90,” which offered a soothing respite from the program’s intensity. No piano recital would be complete without Frederick Chopin. Fittingly, Saturday’s concert featured Chopin?...
...DIED. NIPSEY RUSSELL, 80, comic known as the "poet laureate of television" for his signature, often political, impromptu verse; in New York City. One of the first blacks to co-star in a sitcom (Car 54, Where Are You?), he was best known for reciting his topical poetry ("The opposite of pro is con/ That fact is clearly seen/ If progress means move forward/ Then what does Congress mean?") on variety and game shows like Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and To Tell the Truth...
DIED. NIPSEY RUSSELL, 80, comic known as the "poet laureate of television" for his signature, often political, impromptu verse; in New York City. One of the first blacks to co-star in a sitcom (Car 54, Where Are You?), Russell was best known for reciting his topical poetry ("The opposite of pro is con/ That fact is clearly seen/ If progress means move forward/ Then what does Congress mean?") on variety and game shows like Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and To Tell the Truth...
...handful of airport firefighters who had weathered Katrina in nearby hangers are trying to care for the throngs of dehydrated refugees coming in to what had become an impromptu staging area, radioing out for water and helicopters to get these folks to better-equipped triage areas - like New Orleans International Airport where tents and medicine were available and busses could deliver them to shelters in Texas and northern Louisiana. Large, twin-blade Chinook helicopters had been able to ferry about 400 off the strip. But more people just kept coming and coming, more than can be accommodated with...