Word: snaring
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...Last Thursday morning, Lott was back at his desk between press conferences, fielding calls from senators around the country to talk about next year's agenda, but still plotting to snare the Senate from Daschle next week. A phone call came in from Vice President Dick Cheney. "You in some undisclosed location?" Lott joked. The Secret Service always seemed to be whisking Cheney away because of a terror threat. This time Cheney wasn't hiding. Ironically, he was in South Dakota for some hunting. "Did you bag any Democrats out there," Lott said with a laugh. After trading stories about...
According to Hyde, PBHA officers recently have discussed planning a spring recruiting push, designed to snare first-years who were not ready to commit themselves to service projects in the fall...
...bulk of the work while her smooth voice flutters around creating a sense of longing. In a thin field, it's summer's best tortured ballad. Without Me is another chapter in Eminem's romance with himself. While a woolly sax laughs in the background and an upbeat snare marks time, Eminem raps, "We need a little controversy/ Because it feels so empty without me." It's the one summer song that feels a little dangerous, and that's not a bad thing...
...surrendering to ecstatic inanity: "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!" The second verse, which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass drum is joined by a foreground tapping (presumably the rim of the snare drum), as if someone is keeping time on the mike with his buck teeth. In the bridge, Jerry Lee's left hand rumbles menacingly up to the break, when four-note poundings heighten the melodrama of the lyric: "You're fine, so kind/ Got to tell this world that...
...Adrenaline-charged narratives like Junger's tale of smoke jumpers in Colorado's South Canyon wildfire in 1994 should snare readers--until the fire season ends...