Word: whiz
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...debut 2002 EP, released on the tiny Pickled Egg Records, and for the 2004 album “Thunder, Lighting, Strike!” released on the small-scale label Memphis Industries. In a hurried three weeks, “Thunder, Lighting, Strike!” transformed from a whiz-kid’s solo project to a full-band spectacle. When a booking agent arranged for The Go! Team to open for Franz Ferdinand in Sweden, Parton pulled together the current group by placing online ads and by bringing in friends and friends-of-friends. The icing went...
...doesn't take long to find out who's king of the road in Freiburg. "Hey! Are you blind?" shouts an imperious cyclist as a pedestrian ambles into a dedicated cycle path. Bikes, trams and buses whiz through the center of this medieval city, but private cars are conspicuously absent. That's because for the past 20 years, this university town nestled in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany has reduced the use of cars by laying down a lattice of bike paths, introducing a flat-rate fare for all public transport, and expanding bus and tram lines. Commuters from...
...eventually move away from the novelty of a woman President to political questions--including base closings and disaster relief--and character development. "[Bochco] will probably be exploring characters and issues more," says executive producer Dee Johnson. But producers also say the show would have moved beyond the introductory, gee-whiz-she's-a-woman stage under Lurie too. "The early days of any presidency," says Cohen, "are about what a new leader brings to the office, what their style is and their approach and their inner makeup." They're also about transitions, early missteps and staff problems...
...nice surprise as the gravedigger and Richard Briers rescuing Polonius from amiable fuddery; this old man is as much plotter as plodder. If there's a lapse, it's in the central performance. Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster. But he can't so easily make it poetic...
Jeff Immelt isn't your garden-variety environmental apostle. A math whiz who played football at Dartmouth, he's not apt to tramp about the wilderness or have Zen moments atop majestic mountain peaks. Immelt bestrides the summit of General Electric--a $152 billion conglomerate supplying everything from home appliances to jet engines to entertainment, via NBC Universal. When the GE CEO isn't globetrotting in his role as chief salesman, he unwinds with an activity that Earth Day types typically abhor: golf. "What gets me pumped is hitting a six-iron 160 yards on top of a hill...