Word: ironize
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...Barbican. But until a few years ago she was working odd jobs cooking and cleaning. Whatever the roots of their popularity, these musicians may be helping preserve the cultural traditions of an entire region. Bands like Taraf learned their craft while Eastern Europe was still shut behind the Iron Curtain and so avoided the market forces that have weakened other folk traditions. Now, says Simon Broughton, were it not for Roma, the popular music of Romania, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia and many parts of Greece would be in a dire state: "The way to preserve this music...
...clandestine cabal responsible for ruling the University, operates entirely without student input. The Administrative Board judges students’ disciplinary matters and metes out punishments with no opportunity for legal review and no regard for due process. The Freshman Dean’s Office rules the Yard with an iron fist. No students served on the committee that appointed Lawrence H. Summers the 27th president of Harvard...
...town of Kent, south of Seattle. Like Ridgway--two years older and growing up nearby--Reichert spent his childhood playing in the fields and woods. His father worked in a warehouse, and the family was always short of money--but not discipline. "My father was the old iron German fist," says Reichert. "There was a lot of conflict there." But as the eldest of a large family, Reichert acted as peacemaker, pulling his siblings apart, confronting neighborhood bullies. "When I was 16, I remember my mother got into an argument with one of her friends. I went over and knocked...
...they're locks and keys--except when they're garbage disposals). Gould's essays were something else: witty, respectful of his readers' intelligence, always finding a principle in a grain of sand and a law in a wildflower. That the essays were also a velvet glove for Gould's iron convictions drove many scientists crazy. But we all admired his erudition and explanatory gifts, and several have offered the sincerest form of flattery by trying their hand in the genre he perfected...
...train station. The 68-year-old journalist was alone on a quiet street sheltered by cherry trees along the Kanda River. Suddenly, he heard footsteps, then a loud voice: "You bastard!" Onizawa turned around to see two muscular young men rushing him. The shorter, stockier one swung an iron pipe at his head; Onizawa blocked it but the metal tore into his arm. A second blow ripped through his shirt and the flesh on his shoulder. For good measure, the taller guy kicked him so hard that Onizawa fell to the ground. The guy with the pipe then went...