Word: grind
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...precocious achievement. Torn between an exceptionality they love and a normalcy few others will acknowledge, Harvard students find themselves attracted to a manic social scene that is stodgy by week and unmoored by weekend. Dr. Perfection and Mr. Lush co-exist tensely somewhere between Harvard’s academic grind and the wassailing grind-fest of Harvard State University’s parties...
...night rice binges, clingy loincloths, a positively feudalistic promotion system--it's easy to see how sumo wrestling could get to be a grind. But when AKEBONO, the first foreign-born wrestler to achieve sumo's highest rank, retired from the ring in 2001, it was huge news. The 517-lb. Hawaiian, born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown...
...offensive lineman especially, we just get beat up [in practice],” Traverso explains. “It’s a constant process. There’s no break in the grind, and you just have to be a little bit odd the rest of the time to make...
...musical staying power (will anyone still buy Britney records now that she's outgrown the plaid skirts and kneesocks?). And throw in all the other stresses and strains of being the world's most scrutinized 21-year-old pop star - the grueling video shoots, the countless interviews, the endless grind of disrobing for magazine covers, not to mention the hurtful backlash from conservative Britney-haters like Kendel Ehrlich, the Governor of Maryland's wife, who announced her desire to "shoot" Spears (while speaking at a domestic- violence conference, of all places) - and it's easy to see why the poor...
Liner notes are the stock-in-trade of the music snob and critic alike. They provide almost infinite raw material for those given to trawling through details to find patterns and axes to grind with the music. Without them, there could be no arguments about who produced the three best U2 albums, or at least it would require more effort to resolve. Then again, avoiding liners might have saved Paul McCartney being sued by Yoko Ono over his switching of the traditional Lennon/McCartney credit on his last album. And then there’s the problem of lyrics. Without printed...