Word: reliefer
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This device forces the listener constantly to ask, “What’s coming next?” Let’s hope that he sticks to his old ways, continuing to believe that “Changin’ my style [is] like relief for the primitive beast...
Toward the end of her birthday festivities last weekend, a pleasantly drunk Jenny L. Jacobi ’07 cut the line at the men’s bathroom and sought relief at the first available urinal, where she exhibited remarkable marksmanship given her state of inebriation and general lack of a penis. However, the gent at the adjacent urinal became discomforted by her presence , and perhaps also by her superior aim, asking her to relocate while in mid-stream. Jacobi turned to face her accuser, stating defiantly, “It?...
...poor, however, money can buy relief from chronic hunger, cold, sickness and the resulting unhappiness. Gilbert’s research in an area called affective, or emotional, forecasting shows that we always overestimate the added happiness a new purchase will bring. The true key to enduring happiness, according to studies, is what one would expect: social interactions and good friends...
...pouring water on each other, harassing the protagonists and telling audience members to be glad that life isn’t worse than it is. They are on stage for about half the play, and yet they have nothing to do with the it; their only function is comic relief. At best, they are superfluous and occasionally annoying, but when the action becomes serious, their incessant gaiety distracts from the relationship of the lovers, making the plight seem trivial and irrelevant...
...production—digital and gritty in contrast to the warm sample-driven beats of long-time collaborator Blockhead—enact the simultaneous symbiosis and struggle between Western culture and technology. Though all hip-hop does this in a sense, Ace brings the topic into relief. The title track is a distorted dirge complimented by the arrhythmic plucking of an acoustic guitar. Before long the beat skips and stalls, as if some digital demon in the stereo were trying fervently to spin the disc the other direction. Later, over a beat that features an incessantly ringing cell phone...