Word: statically
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...peak of construction grew by a floor a day. Kelly devotes some great kinetic prose to his labors: "Briody steadied his legs and back and torso and arms and clenched his jaw against the rattle of the pneumatic gun. His muscles were fluid one second with movement, static the next to drive the rivet home, a contracting and easing of his brawn that over the weeks had become as regular as breathing." Work stops only when some poor rivet punk loses his balance and free-falls to his death on the sidewalk below...
Marx describes the unique, retrospective sounds of his album as “the experimentation of late ’60s pop music updated for the 21st century listener.” He finds it “lacking genre or static ideas of nationality or outdated notions of time and structure,” and refers to it as, “The Return of Melody. A Catchy Critique of Pop Music.” The January release was Beekeeper Records’ first...
Rocking the stage in formal suits, ties, vests, (and one beanie) Interpol sleekly managed to attain the impossible: a calm vibe in a sparkling atmosphere. Basking in the shade of their backstage multicolor spotlights Paul Banks’ rich voice became a static shadow glued to center stage, Sam Fogarino’s brilliant percussion a shimmer of cymbals, and Carlos D.’s bass a rock of rhythm...
...Theater songs take the character from one emotional place to another,” she explained, as opposed to their more emotionally static pop counterparts. “A pop lyric is not written to be acted.” But with the birth of hybrid musicals attempting just that, Rybeck rejoined, “a new technique is being born right now on Broadway...
...week, EDF president Pierre Gadonneix and Paolo Scaroni, head of Italy's state-owned utility ENEL, agreed to develop joint projects in France and Europe, including those in the nuclear sector. An end to the static? One Italian exec familiar with the negotiations dismisses the plan as little more than a p.r. move, and says it's too early for Rome to consider lifting the cap. And onerous put options may yet force EDF to exit Italy. But Italian utilities might want to buy a piece of Italenergia and that "could get the French off the hook," says the exec...