Word: pour
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...blank protagonist. "If he takes off the helmet, he should be you," says Marty O'Donnell, Halo 's audio director. "I mean, that's the big deal. Taking off the helmet is unacceptable." Engineering lead Chris Butcher agrees: "It's your experience. You have to be able to pour yourself into that icon." When nongamers look at the Master Chief's helmet, they see a forbidding, anonymous mask. But when gamers look at it, they see a mirror. They see themselves...
...stroll through the sprawling lawn at the center of nearby Prospect Park. As I go to get a drink from a water fountain, I meet a young girl, perhaps three or four years old, who is holding a hollowed out version of Cinderella’s carriage with a pour spout. I watch her give it to her brother, who drinks from it in large silent gulps. She looks at me and says, “My Cinderella!”—a proud proclamation of her desire to share with...
...Faust will not have much time to relax before students and faculty pour back into the Yard in September. In addition to the traditional retreat later this summer with the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing board, the president will attend a dean's retreat next week to discuss her plans with the group of administrators she considers her "cabinet...
Franois Bertrand, head sommelier at the elegant French restaurant Le Gavroche in London, jokes that he agreed to stock 1796 aged rum two years ago because of "the beautiful young Venezuelan marketing rep." But after tasting it, he decided to fool some of his patrons and pour them the rum instead of Cognac. "The cheap nightclub image of rum that had always put them off was changed immediately," says Bertrand...
...four years, my focus has glided from organic chemistry to genomics and finally to environmental science. Some of the skills I’ve picked up will be useful to me in the future; others won’t. I can write quick snippets of computer code, I can pour dangerous liquids with confidence, and I can confidently execute the complete-the-square trick. (Chem 160, I’ll never forget you.) What’s been most rewarding is that I can now peek into the underlying science of the important policy debates of the day. I understand...