Word: grind
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...three a week done," she says. "We look at it and we grind...
Sound like a grind? Listen to the peals of laughter bouncing off the classroom walls. Esquith's Shakespeare goes down like a strawberry milk shake, as textual analysis is interspersed with anecdotes ("Richard Burton once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking parts play music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors...
...Writing to Reach You," which obviously alludes to Oasis' optimistic "Wonderwall" before the lyrics proceed to question the happy jangly sound ("what's a wonderwall anyway?"). When the wrenching lyrics of "Driftwood," the album's best song, ("Just driftwood, hollow and of no use/Waterfalls will find you, bind you, grind you") hit you, an almost instinctive shrinking away takes place...
...that would power the pump, and so on. But the second law means that any friction created by wheel and pump would turn into heat and noise; reconverting that into mechanical energy would take an external power source. Even if the machine were friction-free, the wheel couldn't grind grain. That would require energy beyond what it took to keep the wheel itself going. No good, says the first law, and Fludd's invention...
...months, Jimmy Liu '01 ate his Cheerios in front of his computer in Kentucky, not wanting to miss a trade. The infinite fluctuations of numbers became his daily grind; the NASDAQ webpage his rodeo. Liu was caught up in the adrenaline rush of day trading. "There is a euphoria of everyone playing the same game together. When it starts picking up you want to be there. If you're not, you could lose or gain thousands of dollars," he says...