Word: plaines
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...said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common sin of conflating his subject with his life - the book is as much memoir as history - he does so with the kind of wit capable of charming readers into glossing...
...distinctly Cantabrigian pathology I’ve described has really very little to do with whether we face comps, apps, shoots, punches, or plain-old ballots. It’s the competition itself, the mentality of winning, that is to blame...
...Baron, an industrial designer whose other products include ant-free dog bowls and shop shelving systems, says he always saw the straw as a system for delivering more than flavor. He started tinkering with the idea in 1996, after wondering why flavored milk cost so much more than the plain variety. He tried using a fat plastic straw from McDonald's and a filter made from one of his daughter's school stockings. That didn't work. He soon designed a new type of conical filter that wouldn't clog, and figured out how to create flavor beads by making...
...Most celebrities can't write, and neither can the people they pay to write for them. But there's something compelling about a good celebrity memoir just because it's so achingly predictable: the humble beginnings of the plucky, plain little waif from Nowheresville, the chance discovery, the lucky break, the pieces of a fabulously successful and lucrative career magically magnetizing together. (For a lengthier and smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider...
...simultaneous peace and determination against the auditory backdrop of lightly crashing waves. While “Von” hinted at the endurance of the human spirit, “Echoes,” a creation of Boston Conservatory alumnus Thang Dao, adopted a markedly darker tone. Dancers in plain white tunics shook their bodies to create a disturbing rumble with the outline of two towers in the background. The dancers, who clumped together in interlacing formations with collectively supported individuals in various lifts, seemed to hint at the unity and grief that arose from the 9/11 tragedy. The performers?...