Word: spun
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When Southern Co. spun off subsidiary Mirant Corp. last April, Fuller, 41, was tapped to head the newly independent entity. She became CEO of a $13 billion, publicly traded company that builds and operates power plants and sells electricity and natural gas in North America, Europe and Asia. Last month's announcement by Mirant, once known as Southern Energy, that its third-quarter earnings had more than doubled those in last year's third quarter coincided with the announcement that Fuller was named to the board of Earthlink...
...pretty solo-piano miniatures with such earnest titles as Invention in C Minor and Fantasy (Film Noir). Unlike Sir Paul McCartney's elephantine blunderings into the concert hall, these pieces are modest in scale, as well as unabashedly romantic, and pianist Richard Joo plays them as if they were spun gold. Alas, they sound like the work of a promising student so in love with Chopin and Liszt that he has yet to find his own voice. A for effort, though...
Their hour-long set of crowd-chanting, mosh-pitting anthems was punctuated by three notable moments. The first was a series of solos—initially, DJ Sid “#0” (who wears a gas-mask), a turntable master, scratched and spun in an ever-quickening crescendo as strobe lights flickered; the second spotlighted the drummer—the kabuki-masked musician drummed at a hellish pace while his drum set floated upside down and rotated above the stage. Slipknot’s second highlight was their final track, “Surfacing...
Over the weekend, I encountered the good, the bad and the bizarre in regards to relationships. The Good: Saturday night, I saw the romantic comedy Serendipity for the second time, getting a healthy dose of sugar-spun goodness. The Bad: Sunday morning, I read the New York Times Magazine only to be depressed by tales of “never marrieds,” medicated couples addicted to Prozac and even a treatise “on the tyranny of two.” The Bizarre: Sunday night, I receive an e-mail from the Internet site SecretlyKissed.com informing...
With Harvard clinging to a 1-0 lead in the middle of a Boston College rally, freshman back Shelley Maasdorp made a beautiful pass from midfield to the top of the circle to Egnaczyk, who spun around a defender and backhanded a shot past Eagles goalie Lauren Hill...