Word: rip
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...producer (Lane) and a neurotic one (Broderick) trying to put on a musical so bad it will be a flop is quite literal and jolly. There's no attempt to address the show's endemic weak spots--a slow start and a contrived end. Mostly Stroman just lets it rip. But in some respects the movie is an improvement on the show. Thurman and Ferrell bring a winning naivet� to their parts; Gary Beach is unimprovable, repeating his role as a sweetly inept director-star; and the movie gives Stroman, who also choreographed, an apt setting to honor Hollywood dance...
...Normore intercepted a puck in the Harvard end, eluded junior defender Lindsay Weaver and juked senior goalie Ali Boe for the go-ahead score. With the final ticks winding off the clock in the opening frame and the Crimson with the man advantage yet again, Johnston let a shot rip from the left circle and her slapshot flew over Bugden’s left shoulder and into the back of the net with just 2.7 seconds remaining in the frame. Her goal tied the contest at 2 and provided the Crimson some momentum. “We had good chances...
...quicker for developers to rip an old house down," says Brett Zamore, 34, who renovated a house built in the shotgun style--first used by African-American settlers in the early 1800s--for his Rice University grad-school thesis. "But houses like the shotgun have strengths and character" as well as the potential, he says, to be prototypes for responsible modern living--and for rebuilding hurricane-hit communities on the Gulf Coast...
...Harvard packet first, and so it was thrilling to have a packet of papers with ‘Veritas’ letterheads,” Kendrick writes in an e-mail. But she was surprised to rip open the Priority Mail envelope to find “essentially just manila letters and photocopied sheets of info...
...sang Musique in the opening of “Les Plaisirs.” In her role as the vain and self-important Musique who holds the rest of the court as her captive audience when she sings, Annelisa H. Pedersen ’06 convincingly lets her lungs rip to emit a smooth tone, revealing a refined vocal technique...