Word: yo
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...driver took the wheel. Nothing like that has happened, but the possibility has authorities across the U.S. frazzled. Two weeks ago, a water truck (with a sprinkler that conceivably could spray chemicals) was stolen in Colorado. After a day-long, statewide search, the vehicle turned up. "A couple of yo-yos stole it for fun," says an investigator. But before it was recovered, a federal official says, "we were going crazy...
...driver took the wheel. Nothing like that has happened, but the possibility has authorities across the U.S. frazzled. Two weeks ago, a water truck (with a sprinkler that conceivably could spray chemicals) was stolen in Colorado. After a day-long, statewide search, the vehicle turned up. "A couple of yo-yos stole it for fun," says an investigator. But before it was recovered, a federal official says, "we were going crazy...
...toward the back, slapping each other’s butts along the way. They ultimately crammed into the final three rows which only have 13 seats. The sportsmen obnoxiously chanted lyrics from popular music: “Let me ride that donkey,” “Throw yo hands up at me,” and “Get krunked up, get krunked up. . .” to name a few. The most appropriate diddy had to have been “Raise ‘da roof!” seeing as how the shutle...
...City. He practiced obsessively. "I have begged him not to play so much," manager Sol Hurok told the New York Times in 1959. "I tell him, 'The less you play, the longer you will play.' It does no good." Stern was a generous teacher who mentored and encouraged cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Emanuel Ax (see Eulogy, below...
...chew. Igor Pantelic, part Croat, part Dutch, was using glass fiber to repair speedboats when a musician friend suggested the material would be good to encase his cello: strong, light and capable of being molded to the peculiar shape of each instrument. Today, Pantelic numbers among his clients Yo-Yo Ma and Anner Bylsma, he of Servais fame. Pantelic is modest, saying his work "is just plastic and stinking chemicals." But one aspect of what he does would have applied equally to Stradivari: "I have no one between me and the customer...It's like coming to the tailor: your...