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...Doris Day, John Wayne and Elizabeth Taylor. As they concluded, someone noticed that the show had run 20 minutes short. (Implausible but true.) Cued from the wings, Lewis shouted to the group, "Another 20 times!" Some of the stars danced in couples; others wandered offstage. As the tone grew tenser, Jer announced "We're showing Three Stooges shorts to cheer up the losers." He grabbed the baton from musical director Lionel Newman and led the orchestra, ad-libbing, "We may get a bar mitzvah out of this!" The Pantages Theatre audience was already heading for the exits. (Read...
...things that Harvard has proposed—such as building two additional roads through the neighborhood—and at things that it hasn’t—anything concrete for what it wants to do with the Holton Street Corridor.But even at the Monday meeting, which was tenser than most, nary a negative word was voiced about Harvard’s plans to make the future campus greener and more open. And that, as Harvard’s planners have learned, is about as positive a response as one can hope for.—Staff writer...
...extended race is also clearly getting to Obama, who is noticeably fatigued on the stump and lacks the energy that drew in so many new voters earlier in the primary season. The largely positive media coverage he previously enjoyed has been replaced by a tenser relationship. The candidate now limits his availability to the political press corps, and recently snapped at a reporter who tried to ask a question while he was eating breakfast at a Pennsylvania diner...
...lengthening his vowels. The track’s chaotic arrangement and nonsensical lyrics introduce the jovial insanity that permeates the entire album. “Gown” rolls seamlessly into “Magic Vs. Midas,” which starts out subdued and slowly builds upward into tenser and more earnest territory. Like “Magic,” “Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days” is not what it initially seems: what begins as a somewhat silly candy-covered synth-pop wash evolves subtly into a furious...
...long metal pointer up to a wall map, he told Bush what his unit had seen in its area of operations. Bush followed along, nodding. But then Hemming began to talk about his unit's new rotation schedule, and its extended tours in Iraq, and the room became perceptibly tenser. Speaking more quickly out of what seemed like nervous determination, Hemming said extra time on the battlefield allowed his unit to become more familiar with the terrain. But the shorter-than-usual spells Stateside were inadequate. "Our time back at home is very limited," he said, adding that this...