Word: plucking
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...tell you 10 different ways to pick yourself off the turf, readjust your shoulder pads, pluck grass from your facemask, and say into the huddle, “Heyyya guys I’m stardin ta get dizzy so maybe ya shud start blockin, OK? Prety pleas...
...looks like an ordinary wristwatch. But tucked inside Edge Memory's DiskGO! Watch Flash Drive are 256 MB of memory that you can use to store digital pictures, school reports or any other files to take on the go. To copy them to or from a computer, just pluck the neatly hidden USB cable out of the wristband and plug it into any Mac or PC. The watch shows up as another storage device on your computer. Even better, no driver or software is needed unless you want to password-protect your data. The 256-MB version sells...
Chen Kaige does too. After many rigorous films, many fights with the censor board, he is entitled to pull a few plot strings, to pluck a few heartstrings--to make a film that wants to be liked. And isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? --By Richard Corliss
...songs are packed. But they offer more than filler—each guitar stroke, violin pluck, barely audible incantation and keyboard trill is crucial and executed with style, evoking the album’s wistful but youthful tone...
Nothing in Wang's experience had prepared him for his U.S. venture. Like many other Chinese execs, he ad-libbed his way to the top, putting himself through engineering school and working his way up at Holley, then a low-tech but profitable state-run business. He has undeniable pluck--and he needed it when Holley nearly failed soon after he became chairman in 1987. Spurred by Beijing's calls for growth, he created two dozen units that were involved in everything from building roads to bottling water. Soon debts were nearly as big as assets, and the firm...