Word: sprung
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...Raymond W. Keller ’08, a dancer in the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) and the Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble (HCDE), also mentioned the floors of the new center.“One of the big advantages of the new space is that the floors are sprung so they’re a lot easier on dancers’ knees,” he says. “It’s like the difference between jumping on a wood floor and on a concrete floor.”“I really like the dressing rooms...
...good reason to be excited for this project. I was dusting off my liquid sword, getting ready to guillotine heads once more. RZA wails, “Strong as the base of a mountain, there’s no countin’, how many MC’s have sprung from our fountain!” in his best verse since his paranoid rant on “4th Chamber” ten years ago. MF Doom shows up, demolishes the mic, and promptly leaves. What could beat a whole album of such hip-hop transcendence? But after hearing...
...urologist, respectively—are most confused. Despite their loving guidance, the last science class to appear on my transcript was Science B-57, “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives.” When they asked me what I learned sitting there in Science Center C, what sprung to mind was not skeletal systems or plate tectonics, but how my roommate created an aggressively lewd anagram to remember therapods. But once upon a time, science was my passion. In grade school, I was fascinated by lab experiments, class field trips to the Museum of Natural History, and, most...
...organized the two-year Preserve the Brattle Legacy Campaign, which ends this December, to help build a solid financial foundation. According to Hinkle, the Brattle has been “struggling financially for 15 to 20 years.” Recently, though, the theater’s finances have sprung even greater leaks. Hinkle and his staff completed extensive renovations to the theater in 2001, casting it into a debt that was itself exacerbated as fewer people went movie-going that fall. “There was a huge drop in audiences after September 11” from which...
Miller was no sooner sprung and sworn than a war erupted over why it took Miller and her lawyers so long to get a waiver from Libby in the first place. One of the principles over which Miller said she went to jail was her belief that the so-called blanket waivers of confidentiality signed by Libby and several other White House officials were coerced from them, leaving her no choice other than to continue protecting them. But Libby's lawyer Joseph Tate suggested that Libby had offered Miller a freely given waiver as much as a year...