Word: grewing
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...Observations, he had plenty of. The rubber strips that part for punched chads grew old and stiff over age, he told Gore questioner Stephen Zack. Some styluses were particularly apt to leave chad behind. Some people voted with the card on top of the machine, and only left dimples. Sometimes the chad basin filled up so high that punching through was futile. And Brace never missed an opportunity to tack a Gore talking point at the end of observations. The scanner misses votes, so all the votes in Maimi-Dade must be counted by hand, "the only way of absolutely...
Spare a thought today for Dr. Leonhard Prinz. I know that you won't have heard of him. But if you're a baby-boomer, you probably knew someone just like him as you grew up in the '60s. Dr. Prinz was the music teacher at my elder brother's school. A booming, opinionated Austrian with mid-European charm, he was a frequent guest at my parents' dinner table in the '60s, where he would hold forth on the merits of Mozart and the contributions of Chopin...
...even when she was alone on stage, Dar wasn't performing solo. The audience (most of whom knew her entire catalog by heart) sang along, dancing in their seats. Their excitement only grew when Dar announced near the end of the show that it was being recorded for a live album...
...comparison, Los Lobos have absorbed everything from rockabilly to Marvin Gaye (whose "What's Going On" ends the album), with field trips through psychedelia, doo-wop, blues, pop and just-plain-out-there studio experimentation. And that's not even counting their mastery of the traditional Mexican music they grew up with, the soundtrack of life in Chicano East L.A. With 86 songs, there's a lot to like here: the earliest forays into the studio with traditional material like "Guantanamera"; the rowdy guitar-driven rock 'n' roll that fits them like a favorite leather jacket; the thoughtful, melodic writing...
...post that he took in the mid-1970s on the Fountain House's Committee on Educational Research grew into a quarter century of work with the house, which he continued until recent years...