Word: straightening
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...poetry itself was great. The first piece, “Straighten It Out” set the scene with a sly, sideways look at hair and asserting one’s identity, and from there it ran the whole gamut from rambling personal stories, an a cappella song, some high-school self-revelation and some quite phenomenally good spoken word style poetry. High-paced, sometimes a little too much, the poetry could make reference to Neo of The Matrix and Jesus in the same breath. One freshman stepped up to the mic and echoed what a lot of people seemed...
Vega’s new album, Songs in Red and Gray, misses none of her strengths: Her quietly powerful voice, which avoids Alanis histrionics, remains understated but direct: “Soap and water / Wash the year from my life / Straighten all that we trampled and tore / Heal the cut we call husband and wife.” The music is subtly complex, often with the folky underpinnings of an acoustic guitar. Vega and longtime bassist Mike Visceglia shift easily from the breezily defiant “(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie...
...world is supposed to be, we cannot explain why we know the world shouldn’t be as it is. And without a God who chose to imbue the vision of perfection in humans, alone among all creation, how would we even think to want to straighten our now deeply wrenched Eden...
...White recalls bestowing on anyone was a $200 train ticket. Returning home to Boston after his tour as a paratrooper in World War II, he found an Army pal struggling with civilian life and alcohol abuse. "I got him back to his family in Minnesota, where he could straighten out," White says. "That was a lot of money back then. But I don't like to see people hurting...
Colin Powell has the gift of presence. when he walks into a room, people sit up, straighten their ties, hold their breath in anticipation. And he dazzles them with his effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order...