Word: sloshing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russell somehow extracts the full expressive potential from each bullet. Instead of numbing battle scenes with fifteen million ricocheting bullets, he slows down the path of each shot fired. Instead of "Bang! Bang!" we hear "bang. whoosh. thump. slosh" as the bullet travels through air and into the body of its victim, where Russell, with hyper-colored special effects, intrepidly follows...
Even more surprising, however, were the results of computer models done with a federal computer program called SLOSH, which stands for Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricanes. The program, the backbone of all evacuation studies, takes into account storm tracks, local landmarks and coastal geography to calculate the effects of a hurricane storm surge, the dome of water pushed ashore by strong winds. Such surges can be the deadliest aspect of a hurricane. An immense surge overflowed the city of Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed more than 8,000 people, and possibly as many...
...SLOSH analysis of New York City revealed that the sharp bend in the Atlantic coastline where New York and New Jersey meet, the New York Bight, would amplify the effects of a storm surge to the point where even a modest hurricane could generate deadly flooding in lower Manhattan. "That right angle, believe it or not, can cause 30 ft. of storm surge above normal tide conditions," says Donald Lewis, a hurricane-evacuation expert based in Miami who worked on the New York City study. "The same storm in other parts of the country might cause only...
...result was Into the Sun, a polished albumful of tunes that doesn't suffer from overproduction or banality. Tracks range from a jazzy instrumental ("Photosynthesis"), swooning vocals cum lethargic guitar slosh ("Spaceship") and a toned-down big band Wild West chronicle ("Part One of the Cowboy Trilogy"), all mixed up with love songs galore. Many guests play on the record with Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda, Sean's partner, figuring in significantly on most of Into the Sun's material. She is the emotional, reflective centerpiece, an instrumentalist and the producer, contributing so much that the album should be accredited...
Then there are the House-sponsored Milk and Cookies nights. Blah, blah, blah. As a Group I senior once told Dartboard, his secret to doing well on finals was to study like mad in the days preceding and get drunk on the night before. He graduated summa. House-sponsored slosh-fests might bring our collective GPAs up a bit. What would ole' Harvey Mansfield say about that...