Word: lighter
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Spring reintroduces the beloved Boston Pops Orchestra, a branch of the BSO. This orchestra plays lighter fare, delighting its audience with favorites such as John Williams’ “Theme from Star Wars” and John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.” The carefree Pops atmosphere, complete with balloons and pitchers of “Pops Punch,” brings a welcome step out of the dreary winter...
...received each term, and lower drivers insurance is available for (documented) high-performing students. And in terms of coursework, knowing the results of the past semester has a huge impact on class selection for the new term—poor performance prompts most students to take a lighter load. Ideally, grades should be available before shopping period...
...mission to spread the word on how it's done. This winter, he plans to zero in on high-speed farming--that is, making every operation much faster. "We're adding suspension to the machines and improving the algorithms for guidance," he says. "The benefit will be smaller, lighter machines that have less impact on the environment and that are more affordable to family farms...
...runoff from mining operations and chopped and diced into real estate, it's forever verging on the uninhabitable. "The country wanted to go to sand dunes and rattlesnakes," she writes, "wanted to scrape off its human ticks." All the same, most of the 11 stories in this book are lighter in tone than those in Close Range, a book that took regular plunges into awe and dread. In a supernatural shaggy-dog story like The Hellhole, about a game warden who discovers a very effective means for dealing with unlicensed hunters, Proulx renews the Western tradition of the short story...
...this about the Pollock, I noticed something I had completely missed before; the encaustic wasn’t all black, but was split into two zones, one of black and one of dark gray. Where the two tones met, the knobby protrusions of paint had a dark top and lighter bottom as if they had been carefully shaded to emphasize their three-dimensionality, and this lent the piece a shimmering, optical quality that presented an intruiging and suprisingly subtle contrast to the fugus-like materiality of the paint itself...