Word: meter
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...attempting to bring the mack to the comely Louisa K. Mackintosh ’04, ran around the bases in Cambridge Common, thereby working his awkward, girl-ignorant game in a surprisingly literal fashion. She took the opportunity to run a race of her own: the 40-meter dash into Radcliffe Yard, where she lost Daniels by crouching behind a bush. Commented Daniels, “I just don’t get that girl. I ran around the bases, for chrissakes.” Final thought: Daniels may have reached home base, but he sure struck...
This isn’t a musical exactly—it’s maybe best described as a play with songs. While writing this play and the last one, some material leapt out in meter, or with a melody, or with a bass-and-percussion rhythm attached. Music and song evoke responses in us that straight text doesn’t, and vice-versa. I keep finding myself wanting to juxtapose text and song, but not in a new-music-opera way. I’m too much of a text-bound creature for that...
...created a fabulous garden city surrounded by vast palaces. The King was clearly obsessed with irrigation, designing a lake so immense it came to be known as a sea. Parakramabahu's main palace retains only three of its original seven stories, but judging by its three-meter-thick walls and vast floor plan, it was once a noble edifice. Superb stone lions at the top of the entrance steps were symbols of royal power, as was a frieze of elephants around the outer wall. A short hop away is the royal bathing pool, a stepped tank with evil-looking crocodile...
...DIED. AUDREY MESTRE, 28, French diver who sought to break the world free-diving record by descending to a depth of 171 meters on a single breath, attached to a pulley and a 90-kg weight; off the coast of La Romana, Dominican Republic. Mestre reached the target depth but suffered a fatal accident while surfacing, disqualifying the bid. She was posthumously awarded the world record?breaking the previous mark of 162 meters set by her husband, Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras?for a 170-meter test dive made three days earlier...
...Essentially, most of the city is either resident permit parking or meter parking,” she says. “The permit parking can be a rude awakening when people come to Cambridge...