Word: footedly
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...until last Saturday, I had avoided certain rites of passage at Harvard. I had never peed on John Harvard (I keep imagining the poor Japanese tourists who have no idea what they're getting into when they kiss the statue's foot for good luck), never had sex in the Widener stacks (if you're gonna have sex in a library, at least do it in Langdell-the lighting is more erotic), and I'd never been to the Grille. Never been to the Grille, you say! My perennial excuse: "Um, helllo. I'm way too trendy...
...ABOUT, ALVINO, you ask? Well, it's about a sound that can by turns be as lush and languid as a full string section or as bright and bouncy as a banjo, that can be applied to the most complex jazz progressions as well as the rawest foot-stomping moonshine music. It's deeply sophisticated and wholly honky-tonk at the same time, and it's the ultimate American instrument...
...quite a piece of work it is: As I sit at my pedal steel, my left foot controls three pedals that each raise different pairings of strings, making new chords out of the various open chords available. On either side of my knees are levers that either raise or lower the pitch of other strings; by picking different clusters of strings and using various combinations of pedals and levers, one can play a virtually unlimited number of chord variations. My guitar has one neck, in the E ninth tuning that is the standard for country-style playing. Some...
...office study near Beth Israel in suburban Brookline, Shama is far from the "6 foot 6 big hulk of a guy" that he claimed to be in his recent Boston talk. He is balding, well under six feet and a little goofy looking in the picture of himself in a clown suit that he keeps near the window...
...their Fundamentals of Pattern Making class, is able to offer no support, panicked herself about a tiny tear she has made, despite, or perhaps because of, her extreme caution in removing staples from her brown-paper skirt pattern. "I want to quit right now," Venus says, stamping her foot. Just then instructor Mariella Adrian, standing at the front of the small class, yells, "If you're sloppy in the beginning, it will be sloppy in the end, and all the blame will be with you." Venus freezes. Serena puts down the scissors. For tennis players whose own father rooted against...