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Word: statically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...park bench, one white and one black, sit swapping stories. No premise could be simpler, no setting more static. But because the theater is ultimately a medium of language, of narrative, a skilled playwright can find in just such a conversation all the action an audience needs. The result can be poignant and elegiac, like David Storey's Home, or salty and burlesque, like David Mamet's Duck Variations, or full of rage and silences, like many of Beckett's dramas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Errant Knights: I'M NOT RAPPAPORT | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...image was so faint that scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., checked to make sure it was not the result of a blemish on the camera lens or static distorting the telemetry. But it was real, a tiny circle that represented a previously undiscovered moon only 35 miles in diameter, orbiting 37,500 miles above the murky atmosphere of the planet Uranus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discovering U1:A new moon for Uranus | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...We’ve been static around tenth place in the EISA for many, many years,” men’s Nordic captain Russ Leino said. “[Our goal is] to inch up a few places over the next couple years...On the long term, I think [Nordic coach] Peter [Graves] and the rest of the coaching staff want to return Harvard to glory days...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Skiing | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...shaped my identity as a Minnesotan, reached out to me late one evening in eastern Washington as I sat parked on the shoulder of a state highway waiting for a tow from AAA. I felt grateful for that little miracle, then desolate when those hometown announcers faded back to static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck in the Orbit of Satellite Radio | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...perfect example is in the song “The Farewell Transmission,” when Molina closes with the lyrics, “Through the static and distance, a farewell transmission: listen.” In this passage, you can hear his voice nearly break with seemingly genuine exhaustion and desperation. It’s this sheer channeling of raw emotion that makes singers great: Dylan, Jim Morrison, Jeff Tweedy...

Author: By Nathaniel Naddaff-hafrey and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Indie Explosion Lights Up MFA | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

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