Word: lull
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...down, Seinfeld mentioned an idea - really, just a joke - for an animated film: a movie about bees called Bee Movie. A few months later, Seinfeld was on the DreamWorks campus, being shown how CGI films were made. And here he was, Seinfeld said, "four years later, because of a lull in the conversation...
...doing just that. After the people-students, middle-aged men and women, retirees-took their seats, images of the earth appeared on three giant screens, and a natural-born teacher took them on a two-hour planetary tour. He was playful, eloquent, fully restored from his afternoon lull. He has given this presentation some 2,000 times yet still imbues it with a sense of discovery. He laid out the overwhelming evidence that human activity has given the earth a raging fever, then urged the people to respond-"If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate the baby...
...other instruments. But, though the riffage continues to dominate in the subsequent tracks “Teddy Picker” and “D is for Dangerous,” the nuances become apparent and the melody amidst the ruckus appears. Suddenly, there’s a lull in the storm. “Balaclava” (a hidden gem sandwiched between the in-your-face openers and the sweet melodies that follow) transitions into a set of softer tunes that could be mistaken for ballads if you weren’t listening to the lyrics. Just as furiously...
...vocals, mixed with anxious guitar lines and steady disco beats, successfully work together to create a catchy tune. While they seem to be striving for originality with their amalgam of influences, the Klaxons sometimes fall short of this goal. Unfortunately, a few songs seem to lapse into a boring lull without really ever going anywhere. For example, the album opens with “Two Receivers,” a song that comes closer to piracy than homage with a drum beat eerily similar to Bloc Party’s “She’s Hearing Voices...
...point having been tied with both teams, 2-2. “In the first five minutes...we’ve been playing really well and playing really hard.” Barlow said, “But then sometimes we just sink into a bit of a lull, which has been pretty frustrating.” The UConn lead stretched to 11-3 in the second half before Harvard attack began to click. The offensive revival was led by Martin, who leads the team with 11 goals this season. “[She] had an incredible game...