Word: impromptue
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Although they have played at the Quincy Collective, outside the Leverett Coffeehouse, and one impromptu spectacle at The Spee, they can more often be found around Boston, including at Brother Jimmy’s sometime next week and the All Asia Club...
Cornell coach Jim Knowles sat down for his postgame press conference, looked up at the group of reporters awaiting his assessment of the Big Red’s 38-24 loss to Harvard and proceeded to give an impromptu impersonation of Ryan Fitzpatrick’s father...
More important, it gave Afghans and Karzai a brief chance to get reacquainted. Karzai needs this kind of impromptu pressing of the flesh because on Oct. 9 he will face 17 rivals in the country's first-ever presidential election. Since political differences here are often resolved with bullets, Karzai, 46, has been an invisible candidate, rarely leaving his granite-walled palace. U.N. officials say a third of the country is still in the grip of either Taliban fighters or lawless warlords, making it nearly impossible for Karzai and other candidates to campaign freely. Parliamentary elections will be held next...
...home" ethos that he seems to retain. He's employed an inventive cheekiness working on election campaigns in his youth. Out on the town, he can be a show-off and a charmer. At an Indian restaurant one evening a decade ago, he launched into a funny and impromptu toast for a stranger celebrating his birthday at another table. But he also has a darker, brooding - some say menacing - side; it can be a turn-off to women, in particular. Latham's exuberance, enthusiasm and passion for the cause can run off the rails. He's tribal, never backs away...
...punch. The physical and emotional closeness of everyone in the room, regardless of rooting interest, could not have been possible if we had each watched the game separately from our desk chairs and futons. It was the swarms of exuberant fans streaming out of common rooms that created the impromptu parade through Harvard Yard after the Sox’s victory over the Oakland Athletics...