Word: tilling
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...little var and restaurant across from Davenport," she says. "And the best place to drink, though it's a little expensive, is the Greenery, down on Chapel St. And you should make sure you go to Toad's place, a concert hall on York St, where they serve drinks till 2:30 a.m. And then there is..." But wait, you break in, not knowing the end is near, "Why do you know so much about the Fun Spots...
...inventing an effective device, to continue using it until it has beaten the audience insensible. In the first courtroom scene, Polonius, at a signal from the King, begins to thump his stick on the floor. At each impact the courtiers clap in unison; gradually, the chamberlain accelerates his pounding till the room rings with hearty applause. All well and good; but, having established the procedures. Cain has Polonius repeat the gesture six of seven times before the scene closes, and at least four more times by the end of the play...
...fingers. Lecouffe says later that he learned to play his fiddle as a child in Canada, then gave it up and started again about ten years ago. "Read music?" he says, grunting at the humor of this. "I don't even know what key I'm in till someone like Dave Carr tells...
...little further down Brattle, tucked in The Gap's store front, a large gathering clots this otherwise fluid urban scene. Facing those who till the sidewalk and spill into the street, a burly, bearded man clad in a tuxedo jacket, narrow pink tie and baggy army fatigues finishes the Motown milestone "My Girl." An elderly gentleman steps forward and drops a bill into the open guitar case. "We should all learn from this man tonight," bellows the musician, mocking the voice of Sunday morning TV-gospel preachers. The crowd laughs, and some swell toward the case appreciatively. The guitarist asks...
...they lend significance to their product, and writers can do the same. In an age of literary civil engineers, when the multitudes try to write novels taller than the Sears Tower, White is a carpenter, rubbing his essays and, in this instance, sketches and poems, with 600-grade sandpaper till they are silk, till they are more than functional...