Word: mason
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...Most of the interview last night between Congressman Condit and Connie Chung seemed like a conversation between two people speaking English as a second language. She, of course, loaded every question in pursuit of that impossible Perry Mason moment where the prosecutor breaks down the witness. Connie, it never happens...
...rather, the rest of you. The press warned you he wasn?t going to say anything besides play the old politician?s skin-saving game of grabbing the camera and saying nothing. We warned you Connie Chung wouldn?t even come close to a Perry Mason moment. We warned you that the interview would be the opposite of illuminating - it would, in fact, be utterly depressing to see a two-bit congressional Lothario dig himself deeper into shame by refusing to have any shame at all. We warned you that if you had any distaste left over from impeachment (which...
...familiar to her as the bleat of a goat. Like everyone else, she runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania, a mason. Gul picks up Nadiya and the group runs inside a shop. They swing the shutters down and huddle in a corner. But then Nadiya begins crying. Outside, soldiers hear her. "They're in there," the soldiers shout, demanding the occupants open the store's shutters. Gul and Yusuf shout back...
...It’s a thankless task,” says Mason Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff...
...what blissful nodding it can be. On 'Hot Shots II' the Beta Band - Steve Mason (vocals and guitar), John Maclean (samples and keyboards), Richard Greentree (bass) and Robin Jones (drums and keyboards), all in their late twenties - show themselves to be adept with both traditional melodies and electronic special effects. On "Human Being," for example, they open with a skittering drum machine beat that might impress a Jamaican dance hall producer, and, accompanied by piano, horns and synthesizers, proceed to harmonize Crosby, Stills and Nash-style before they let loose with pounding real-life drums and electric guitar. Mason...