Word: pinkness
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...sort of animal ease, his fingers fly, and a montuno rhythm swells through the dented amp, surging until the drummer can't help joining in with the five-beat clave that is the backbone of all music here. And then the camera swings to the timbalero with a pink star dyed into his fade, cracking into the rhythm, and here comes the bass player--whose father and grandfather were famous singers with Orquesta Aragón--now he's thumping the ones and threes. This thing is really moving now; the horns punch in, and the camera pans across the room...
...government unveiled plans on Monday to rescue one of the world's biggest banks, plowing $20 billion of new capital into Citigroup and shouldering up to tens of billions of dollars in losses tied to the bank's soured assets. After a brutal week for Citi - marked by pink slips for tens of thousands of workers and a 60% drop in its stock price - news that the government would step in propelled its shares, which rose 58% from Friday's close. "Equity investors were panicked about the company's viability," says David Trone, who follows Citi at the investment bank...
...small child chased another with neon pink “gluep” slathered over his hands, parents and Harvard administrators mingled at the celebration of the Harvard Allston Education Portal on Friday...
...Pink (as in slips) is the new brown. This fall a number of economists began predicting that unemployment would rise to 8% during this recession, up from a reading of 6.5% in October. It would be the highest jobless rate in years. But put into historical perspective, that forecast isn't too bad. A quarter of all adults were out of work during the Great Depression. More recently, unemployment reached 7.8% in the early 1990s, and climbed all the way to 11% in the beginning of the 1980s. We recovered from both of those recessions looking quite sprightly. But beyond...
...Gossip Girl” characters’ names? I’ll never tell... THE 19th WIFE by David Ebershoff A pale, naked woman stares ahead, with only her long, sunflower-hued braid in sharp focus. Her soft skin melts into the yellow-toned background, while a pink blossom in her hair provides the sole variety in color. Again, a mysterious female presented without any particular setting? I guess that’s just the theme this season. This cover seems strange, secretive, evocative of hidden truth. Perhaps we should discuss further—and that?...