Word: stools
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...grape • In a cellphone pic • On a turtle shell • In a vat of spumoni ice cream • We didn't even mention the man who's convinced that he can see the Virgin Mary in the leg wound likely suffered when he fell off his bar stool ("You can actually almost see her holding the baby Jesus...
...come alive, truly transforming the piece into a story the audience could fully understand.With the last G major chord of “Rondo” ringing the decisive finale to the first half of the presentation, the stage is rapidly rearranged to replace the music stands with a stool, a chair, and a table set for breakfast. Kapilow reemerges to present his own original piece, named “Green Eggs and Ham,” named after the well-known rhyme by Dr. Seuss.Like he does with “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” Kapilow involves...
...Newspapers and magazines traditionally have had three revenue sources: newsstand sales, subscriptions and advertising. The new business model relies only on the last of these. That makes for a wobbly stool even when the one leg is strong. When it weakens - as countless publishers have seen happen as a result of the recession - the stool can't possibly stand...
...that they were all waiting for, that had brought them together under those timbers that night, took the stage—burly, black shirt, slightly stooped with guitars in both hands—that hum of anticipation burst into a roar. Without a word, he sat down at his stool in the spotlight, adjusted the microphone towards his instrument, and began to play.There are few living guitarists who could consider themselves equal to Leo Kottke. Over the last four decades, he has established himself as an innovator, not only of the acoustic guitar but of a movement whose interlocking eclecticism...
Excrement. Stool. Defecation. S___. This unlikely tour of the underworld of human waste grew out of the author's 2006 series on sewage for the online magazine Slate. George, an accomplished London-based writer, has inarguably hit on an important topic. As many as 2.6 billion people lack sanitation--meaning no access to a latrine, a toilet, a bucket or even a box. The health consequences are, not surprisingly, catastrophic: "A gram of feces," George writes, "can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs." The privileged Westerner winces. Yet in an upbeat...