Word: roughness
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...says. "Then you run it to where, if you were woken up in the middle of the night, you could probably say it backwards. Then you write the whole thing out illegibly and see if you can scream through it as fast as you can, while only having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably improvise a couple of versions that are better than what's on the page and perform those too. "He really, really wanted it," says Susan, 34, his wife...
...Rough sleepers," as homeless people are known in Britain, are sheltering incognito at many of the world's major airports, says Sandie Cox of Heathrow Travel Care, the organization overseeing the one-year pilot scheme. Chicago's O'Hare instituted a homeless outreach in the 1990s. Several others, including Newark-Liberty in New Jersey and Los Angeles' LAX, have done the same. Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, has more delays than most major hubs; the catalog of errors accompanying the March 27 opening of the $8.5 billion Terminal 5--including some 250 canceled flights and 28,000 pieces...
...faceoffs, the offense just holding onto the ball—that’s going to be a key for us.” And Smith didn’t get any aid from the wing players, who usually step in to help out a faceoff man having a rough outing. “We just weren’t in the right spot defensively,” Tillman said. “We weren’t able to hold onto the ball as well as we’d like. They won faceoffs, so all of a sudden...
...Meant to personify the violins in Bach’s “Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins,” the two women delightfully executed an excerpt from the first movement. The evening maintained a casual atmosphere, facilitated by the speakers’ candor and the rough, demonstrative nature of the performances themselves. This informal setting is a key feature of the series. “There are very few occasions when you get to see a company this big so close,” Larissa D. Koch ’08, a dancer and choreographer herself...
Augusta's addition of the thin rough was likewise both radical in its break from tradition and subtle in its impact. The best golfers soon figured out how to adapt. Nick Faldo, a three-time Masters champion, says the longer grass may actually assist players as rough reduces backspin, which can cause balls to scurry off Augusta's treacherous greens like startled mice. "The rough is so short and the greens so challenging that players can potentially use it to their advantage," he says. "You can hit intentionally into the rough to take the spin off your approach. Players...