Word: strung
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...Crimson, which was seeded No. 1 in the tournament last year, repeated its performance this weekend from the No. 2 spot. The squad strung together commanding victories against Brown in the quarters and Princeton in the semifinal en route to a tough but gratifying victory over No. 1 Columbia...
...between the revolutionary songs that were blasted over loud speakers (which were strung out for miles from the square), thousands of pounds of confetti were poured from Azadi Tower in the square, accompanied by paratroopers who dropped in from the sky. Several of the parachutes were attached to long Iranian flags that streamed across the crowd as the troopers landed. Ahmadinejad arrived and delivered a speech that was over an hour long and consistently evoked the important advancements of Iran, including its nuclear achievements. The President did not bring up the June 2009 election, which is still disputed...
...Wallace takes the blunt emotional starkness of the written interviews and puts them into motion on the screen in such a way that the audience can’t help but feel directly addressed by each subject. The film—a short 80-minute affair made up of strung-together interview segments—doesn’t hold very well as a narrative in its own right, but it does an elegant and powerful job of conveying the central themes of Wallace’s work: the immediacy of existence and the pure moment of visceral human reaction...
...songs. They elapse.” Though Snow preserves much of the syntax in Rilke’s original, there seems something diluted about the lines. Somehow the causal relation between the “voice” and the “mouth” is only weakly strung together by the pale “forces.” Compare these lines with the Mitchell: “…Young man, / it is not your loving, even if your mouth / was forced wide open by your own voice—learn // to forget that passionate music...
...songs. They elapse.” Though Snow preserves much of the syntax in Rilke’s original, there seems something diluted about the lines. Somehow the causal relation between the “voice” and the “mouth” is only weakly strung together by the pale “forces.” Compare these lines with the Mitchell: “…Young man, / it is not your loving, even if your mouth / was forced wide open by your own voice—learn // to forget that passionate music...