Word: marr
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...survivors speak of the terror and the excitement of playing in a death match. Are we somehow incomplete as people if we do not taste that terror and excitement on the brink? "People are [taking risks] because everyday risk is minimized and people want to be challenged," says Joy Marr, 43, an adventure racer who was the only woman member of a five-person team that finished the 1998 Raid Gauloises, the granddaddy of all adventure races. This is a sport that requires several days of nonstop slogging, climbing, rappelling, rafting and surviving through some of the roughest terrain...
Earlier on the album, Belle and Sebastian nod to the Smiths. While one of the tracks on Arab Strap is explicitly about the record label representative who signed Johnny Marr from the Smiths, on "Electronic Renaissance" the chorus is a revisited version of the Smith's "Panic." Gently mocking many of the current pop bands who have incorporated sophisticated remixing and other mixology, Murdoch sings, "Play a game with your electronics, take a step to the discotheque...Hand in hand with the Electronic Renaissance is the way to go, you're learning, soon you will do the things you wanted...
...from which he procured the Mytheral breastplate. And the identity of the monsters he and his party spent 11 hours slaying in order to win the item is likewise proprietary. But he will talk about the auction that his character, a gnome named Razor, held that night in Mithaniel Marr. Roughly 200 players showed up, and the armor sold for 4,000 platinum pieces. But then, turning a socially responsible profit is Razor's forte. "It's how I add value to the economy," he says, "and to the game itself...
...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...
...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...