Word: slacked
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...year round. But while it was once consecrated to the pleasures of the privileged, the Icehouse is now enjoyed by many. And it's no longer a place to cool off. Instead, weekend nights are smoking hot?thanks to the smoldering licks of resident players Melvin Taylor and the Slack Band. Customers whistle, whoop and clap in cocktail-fuelled bonhomie as the band turns up the heat?and the sounds of bulldozing that seem to accompany every waking hour in modern-day Beijing seem far away indeed...
...Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears regularly...
...right now? How many of them are on patrol, and how many are responding to calls? Why don't we know that? Are they all paid the same? Is there special pay for the more effective officers? What time does crime pick up in the day? When does it slack off? It goes on like that for nearly 90 minutes, until it becomes clear that everyone needs a break. Walking out, Brown says his job is to keep the pressure on police. "I was trying to get them to think differently. We have a lot of dedicated criminals here...
...Sing This one is sad. Clifford Odets' leftwing '30s drama about the struggles of a Bronx family in the depths of the Depression made a big impact on me during my English major days and in one previous staging I've seen. But I was let down by this slack, erratically acted Broadway production, which was (again) unaccountably hailed by the critics. I'll buy Zoe Wanamaker as the strong-willed matriarch, but the overrated Mark Ruffalo is simply grating as the gigolo next door, and the estimable Ben Gazzara doesn't seem to have the energy to make much...
...undergraduate institution in the world, as being home to an alleged copyright infringer, or because another student war protest is taking place (or wait, was that just House Day?), but leave our “big-time” sports out of it. We get enough slack for everything else, and as much as it might hurt, it’s best to keep our sports out of the limelight until we give reason to the contrary. I’d love for us and our draft brethren to matter, but we don’t. In fact, I shouldn?...