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...California Zephyr,” a song about traveling on a Western railway, opens the album, and uses simple, sunny guitar and Ben Gibbard’s lighthearted vocals to set the expansive, American West scene. A rambling, pleasantly repetitive tune, “Zephyr” conveys a good sense of movement, as one can almost imagine peacefully sitting on the eponymous train, humming this tune as fields and hills stretch by. The chorus—“I’m transcontinental / 3,000 miles from home / I’m on the California Zephyr / watching America...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Surf and Turf. Zephyr Cove Resort in Lake Tahoe has a "Stay, Cruise and Snowmobile" package with two nights in a lakeside cabin, a snowmobile tour, a sunset steamboat cruise, along with breakfast and lunch for two. Rates start at $319 per night, through March 20. 760 U.S. Hwy 50, Zephyr Cove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agatha Christie's Private Escape, and Other Travel Goodies | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...Their products just can't command enough value in the market," he says. Total sales were $164 billion in 2003; estimates for '06 are around $150 billion. Ford Motor hopes several new midsize cars with crisp styling and peppy engines--the Ford Fusion, the Mercury Milan and the Lincoln Zephyr--will help. Sales for all three have increased more than 30% each month since their October release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save The American Auto Industry? | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...Digweed spins above-average progressive house music, full of rhythm, body and the occasional trance-like zephyr. His style, like many other house DJs, is continuous: only one or two segments stood out as pieces with at least a vague beginning and end, while the rest was a heavily overlapped stream distinguishable only to the attentive ear. Fellow DJ superstar and frequent collaborator Sasha calls Digweed "the best DJ on the planet," but if this is true it is more for Digweed's craftsmanship (evinced by his smooth layering) than for brazen originality or nerve. Still, he does have...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A bedrock of house music: One of the dons of the U.K. house music scene comes to Boston | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...will be as soon as she dies. The last one wants to work for CNN, hegemonic transducer of the dismaying current events that probably led From Campaign's writers to inscribe the good-guy roles onto characters from another time. Forkner's breasts hang low. Chung makes a bombastic zephyr. Fenton and Green magically fuse the camaraderie of the Lone Ranger and Tonto with the out-of-time bewilderment of Dorothy and Toto (they even bring a pair of ruby slippers, only in this case they are neither ruby nor slippers...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hasty Pudding Rushmores Through History of America | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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