Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Helprin, it turns out, is also a conservative political columnist. He has expostulated for the Wall Street Journal off and on since 1985, in style and tone closer to Rush Limbaugh than George Will. As a contributing editor to the Journal in 1992, he evaluated the man now running as the party's candidate: "Senator Bob Dole, the grand old rhinoceros of the G.O.P., is in his fury and in his wisdom a natural for the presidency, but by the time he assumed it, he would be 73 years of age." Depending on how you feel about rhinoceroses, that could...
Prizes were also awarded to Ramin Tolovi '96 for "The Basis of Technical Change in 'Japanese Manufacturing, 1899-1938"; Emily J. Tsai '96 for "Neural Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Intensity Discrimination: Responses of Auditory Nerve Fibers to Pure Tone Signals in the Presence of Notched-Noise"; Emily M. Tucker '96 for Animula Vagula Blandula: A Study in the Use and Formation of the Latin Diminutive"; Jennifer M. Ty '96 for "Is Walking With Two Cheaper to Do? The Energetic Cost of Walking and Running in a Non-Human Biped"; Balint Virag '96 for "Random Walks on Finite Convex Sets of Lattice...
...really gets up for big matches," Chang says. "He has a lot of energy out there, and we all feed off of it. He's always ready to play, and that sets the tone...
Because Hanson has to couch what is mostly common-sense information in entertaining terms, sometimes the scattered asides and pop-culture references that give the book its hip, witty tone can seem contrived...
...momentum won't allow a pause and Eve's Plum moves forward. They rock even harder on "I Want It All," as Fitzpatrick purges her anger and greed, and "Lipstuck," which she introduces as "a song about a girl that mistakes a glue stick for her lipstick." The lighthearted tone of the latter song creates a playful atmosphere among the band members and shows that Eve's Plum knows how to have fun. Incorporating the lyric "All I want to do is lick my lips and purr" into a catchy song like "Lipstuck" makes Eve's Plum is even more...