Word: spent
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Student groups, whose stamps of approval often carry weight among both members and other students, have spent hours since Dec. 1, the campaign's official start, interviewing candidates, grilling them on issues from anti-homophobia measures to College funding for campus activities...
...real issues addressed during the play. Each of the characters is barely a sketch of an individual. Bob is supposed to be written with slightly more depth than the others, but we don't realize this until his monologues at the end of the play because he has spent so little time on stage...
Melvin V. Priester '01, who was at the debate, said he felt that--with the exception of the outlandish Benjamin W. Dreyfus '01--the debate was boring, and complained that candidates spent too much time talking about the council's image instead of substantive change...
...their level of ostentatious posturing. Lead singer Raine Maida achieved neither the dreamy falsetto of Radiohead's Thom Yorke nor the endearing whininess of Smashing Pumpkin's Billy Corgan, but instead settled for a lesser euphony in between. Unlike tours associated with their previous albums Naveed and Clumsy, Maida spent much of the set without a guitar in his hands. Instead, he stumbled around the stage with a placid stare of indifference temporarily disturbed from time to time by unconvincing posture. New keyboardist Jamie Edwards followed Maida's scales precisely on the Moog in a valiant, yet ultimately futile, attempt...
Driskell and Burton's schedule is somewhat less leisurely. Burton's expulsion from the council seems to have disrupted both his and Driskell's day--much of their time was spent planning a complaint against the council and contemplating how to answer the inevitable questions from both supporters and opponents...