Word: walke
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...more concrete narrative material, the tongue-in-cheek presentation suggests that dabbling in the realm of standard exposition is another of his little experiments. The University of Haifa, for example, is an index of the expected, so he can be flippant with the details: “People walk about with names like Kaplinksi or Eshtahaul or Bar-Ziva, and girls walk around in various colors, and all enter and exit rooms with the number 526 or 3002,” he writes. But in time, he reveals that a code of some kind underlies his authorial choices. He alludes...
...order to hit the ground running after a nice, long summer, let’s consider a hypothetical. A group of representatives from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) walk into an advertising agency—say the firm from “Mad Men.” John Hamm’s character sits staring across the table, trying to act like he doesn’t want a cigarette, and he says to PETA, “Now tell me, who exactly would you like your ads to target? Because as of now, it seems...
...Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi. The committee then delved into research and focus groups, polling students on the need for more spaces to facilitate social interaction.“In the focus groups, over and over again, people would say that the message they get when they walk through campus is ‘Keep moving. Don’t stop. Don’t talk to anybody,’” Cohen says. “I remember in one of the focus groups that a graduate student said something really poignant...
...wake up in the middle of the night, thinking about plays that happened in the game? When I'm not doing something well, or I didn't play my best, it kind of eats at me. Sometimes at night, I will get out of bed, unconsciously, and I'll walk through the play, and try to correct it. I pride myself in doing that. If I had a girlfriend, she'd be like, "Larry, what are you doing?" She'd get confused by it. My love for this sport is definitely a sickness. It's one of my best attributes...
...register the same urgency without handclaps and vocals. “More Stars Than There Are in Heaven” is the most successful, relying on a slow buildup of fuzzy drums and airy guitar. The refrain is simple—“We’ll walk hand in hand”—but the way Ira draws out each syllable creates a melodic intensity that rises and falls in waves, in sync with the guitars and driven by the pulsing bass. Though the song gradually builds, it never explodes. Restraint seems in many ways totally...