Word: parkerisms
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...poor dear superheroes, we sympathize with your plight. Young Peter Parker, you got bitten by a radioactive spider, which somehow enables you to bound gooily from one tall building to the next. Dr. Bruce Banner, the gamma bomb you were working on exploded, turning you gigantic and green and incredibly hulkish when you get angry. And you four fantastic ones, exposed to cosmic rays on an outer-space voyage - that could happen to anyone. Our hearts go out to you, and all the preternatural X-men and -women, cursed by chance with awesome powers. We acknowledge your mutant majesty...
...like the dominant defensive team that it had been recently. Crimson starter Madick threw four straight 1-2-3 innings, with no hits, no walks, and absolutely no Dartmouth offense to speak of. That all changed in the fifth inning. The Big Green got a leadoff double from Alyssa Parker, who advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt from teammate Leigha Clarkson. The next batter knocked a single to left field that drove Parker across the plate and opened up the floodgates for an inning that didn’t end until Dartmouth had scored seven times on six hits...
...confidence.” Coming into the race against the Midshipmen and the Quakers, the varsity eight worked on cleaning up its rowing over the first half of the race, as the Crimson has been forced to come from behind in its previous wins. In addition, Harvard coach Harry Parker switched up the lineup of the varsity eight, bucketing the two and three seats. “Bucketing the boat can help with the balance, how the boat turns, and even the power between the starboards and the ports,” Medioli said. “We decided...
...turn into “Pit and the Pendulum” doom and gloom, as wolf and bear narrowly escape their female captors-turned-ritualistically-sacrificing-robots. Not quite as idiosyncratic as Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, but bizarre enough, considering that Quincy’s working without Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The cartoon storyline does little to illuminate Les Savy Fav’s enigmatic lyrics, but compounding elusive distraction upon elusive distraction is half the fun of indie music. The absolute inscrutability of lyrics such as “Quart doesn’t burn / Rust doesn?...
...while Harvard was responsible for pro-slavery sentiments, a number of Harvard graduates were outspoken abolitionists, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Theodore Parker...