Word: slant
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Mazza similarly turned a 10-yard slant across the middle into an 88-yard touchdown...
Fitzpatrick and the first-team offense showed their ability to strike quickly, as the quarterback connected with Mazza on two touchdown strikes, including a 10-yard slant that Mazza broke for an 88-yard score...
Some of Deadwood's strongest insights are about the symbiosis between a racist society and the groups it despises. Take the camp's Chinese cook Wu (Keone Young), who is the butt of slant-eye jokes but has an indispensable role. When someone wants to keep a murder quiet, the corpse is fed--despite the cook's silent disgust--to Wu's pigs. (Which, yes, the townsfolk eat.) Even more essential are the Indians or, as they are dehumanizingly and incessantly called, "the godless heathen c__ksucker Sioux." Although it's two weeks after Custer's massacre at Little Bighorn...
...bridges are unusual for having asymmetrical flourishes, canted curves that slant against the water or--as in his first American span, a $23.5 million glass-and-steel footbridge in Redding, Calif., that opens next month--a long, slender tail fin at one end that operates as a sundial. "Asymmetry allows you to explore," he says. "You can emphasize things having to do with the position of the city against the water or the curvature of the stream...
...deliciously raucous melding of ’60s soul-channeling and furious garage punk. And the soon to be released Pawn Shoppe Heart, already available in the U.K. and on iTunes, offers more of the same addictive, bombastic energy, only cleaner and with slightly less of a blues slant. This second album marks their major label debut—they’ve switched from the indie Sympathy for the Record Industry to Sire, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers—and it shows in the quality of recording...