Word: spicing
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Faculty committees are often known for their stultifying dullness, but there are some issues in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this year that are bound to spice things up--and even affect student's lives...
...clever! How witty! How irreverrently inappropriate! Gee, guys, you sure know how to spice up life at Harvard. Why don't you just try to throw rotten tomatoes the next time? It would be a little more honest...
...problem with Fenton's score, Goldenthal found, was that it mirrored the tempo of the movie: slow, almost turgid. Like Elmer Bernstein, who enlivened the ponderous exodus of the Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's The 10 Commandments with quick, sprightly march music, Goldenthal sought to spice up Jordan's dour vision of vampirism with a sprinkle of harpsichord here, a dash of rock there. "The performances were very slow and metered," he says. "Brad Pitt's delivery was whispery. What the music needed was horseplay, fire; I took any chance I had to get quick music in there...
Macias, a laborer for a spice company, was represented by court-appointed lawyers who were paid little to work on his case and allotted just $500 for investigators and expert witnesses. The trial was riddled with attorney errors. For one, his lawyer failed to call an alibi witness who would have placed Macias miles away from the crime scene. One court that reviewed the trial transcript commented that this oversight alone could have meant the difference between conviction and acquittal. Macias' trial lawyer contends that the lack of money was not a factor, noting he devoted eight months...
...people were fearful and hopeful that something would happen to spice things up for the parents," he recalls...