Word: muscularity
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Maybe you remember a guy named Armpit from Sachar's last book, Holes? Big, muscular, convicted of assault? You get to know him a lot better in Small Steps. He's out of juvie and trying to go straight as a landscaper-slash-high-school student. Unfortunately his buddy X-Ray (another Holes alum) gets him back into trouble over a ticket-scalping scheme. And when a chance meeting gets Armpit mixed up with a teen pop superstar (the tickets were for her concert), things get complicated. It's a fairy-tale setup, but Sachar gives his characters real emotions...
...Little Frog. And they are delivered with Murdoch's characteristic humanity and obscure wit - it's still thinking music, so long as you think while you dance. And the band has never remained static. When the late bbc DJ John Peel described their last Glastonbury Festival performance as "surprisingly muscular," he was observing the gradual transformation of a band often relegated to the "twee" genre - music so light and self-referential that it almost shattered upon listening - of the late '80s. The surprise choice of Trevor Horn (the ex-Buggle who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood and t.A.T.u...
...perilous journey across the yard every day, fending off angry foreigners and their pets, if Mr. Canaday can so easily bypass the John Harvard statue and all its accompanying mayhem. But the tyrannical rampage of random privilege does not stop at housing. Mr. Canaday’s well-endowed muscular frame puts my own to shame. The sheer, intimidating perfection of his figure is a testament to the abhorrently unfair process of DNA distribution. In the interest of leveling the social playing-field, I support dragging Mr. Canaday down to the level of the genetic proletariat: scar his face, knock...
...counterterrorism: search-and-destroy sweeps, intelligence gathering, infiltration, targeted assassination. The Americans have never been keen on "nation building." They have run prts, but only as a second string to the imperative of counterterrorism. The Europeans, on the other hand, are only there for nation building, albeit in a muscular way. They see this as their particular contribution to the long-term eradication of jihadist terrorism. In any case, they carry out their counterterrorism differently from the U.S., led more by police than soldiers. Europeans worry that their new role in 75% of the country will just encourage...
...that same night from a resident of Sommerville. The suspect is described as a blonde, clean-shaven white male in his 20’s sporting a crew cut-style haircut, according to the HUPD advisory. He is about 6’3” tall, has a muscular build and weighs about 175 pounds. At the time of the robbery, the suspect was reportedly wearing a yellow and white coat with a blue hood. In the alert, HUPD reminded students, faculty, and staff to comply with the requests of an armed assailant and not to resist if approached...