Word: soaring
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...example, among applicants who scored a perfect 1600 last year, 39 percent were admitted to the Class of 2007. But for those perfect-scorers whose family income was below $40,000, the acceptance rates soar up to 53 percent. The trend continues down to the 1200 mark, at which point acceptance rates level out at around 5 percent...
...flashing during interviews these days. If producers went for a heartwarming holiday reunion theme with a few of her high school pals, with their incomprehensibly thick southern drawls, mixed with some of Britney’s fellow cast mates from the Mickey Mouse Club, I guarantee that ratings would soar. Just imagine the debauchery—eggnog, mistletoe, “Hit me [Santa!] One More Time!” Who needs Ralphie and the traditional A Christmas Story when you can have Britney...
...signature to a portrait already rich in character. Other actors sell the moviegoer their affability; Penn's face is a confrontation with the dangerous unknown. It dares you to go on the bumpy ride that is so often a Sean Penn film: a journey that doesn't soar above your most brutal fears but burrows deep inside them. His gift is to demonstrate that a man could learn to live there...
WYSS: That's 1964, for the rest of you. But in the long run, we're going to have an issue. After 2010, when us baby boomers start to retire, that number is going to soar...
...made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip Moman classic unfolds, O'Connor's fidelity to each note becomes a form of quiet desperation. Like her old buddy Frank Sinatra, she makes songs great without appearing...