Word: stringing
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...Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco's Spain, the surrealist master Luis Buñuel, came to Mexico and made a string of startling social melodramas: Los Olvidados, Nazarin, The Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert. Among these giants, Infante stood proud...
...scene opens on the title character weeping into a phone and bemoaning her failed life, which seems to comprise a string of bad break-ups and an even worse attitude. Unfortunately for our heroine, whoever is on the other line just won’t commiserate, and Witherspoon breaks off the conversation with that tried-and-true excuse, “I guess I’m just not in the mood to talk right...
...this season’s most feared hitter in the Ancient Eight, Ryan Lavarnway, the winner of the last three Ivy League Player of the Week awards. With the count 0-2, Lavarnway’s eight home runs and 38 RBI meant nothing, as Perlman pulled the string and sat the powerful outfielder down with a wicked changeup. “That showed me a lot, especially for a freshman,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. “He was keeping them off balance with the changeup all day.” Yale?...
...Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic sonics that seem plucked straight from U2’s “Joshua Tree.” Consider him a revisionist, not a plagiarist. Bird’s music often complements a simple melody in the foreground with complex string arrangements in the background. However, in some songs, he tends to oversimplify. In “Plasticities,” Bird matches his voice with the guitar, note-for-note. Although it aligns with his style of mixing the simple with the mega-sonic, here it comes...
...said Harvard Law School student Sarah M. Isgur, who is the Boston coordinator of Students for Mitt. Romney, who completed a joint program with Harvard’s Law and Business Schools, served as the governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. The program is just part of a string of efforts by the Romney campaign to target youth voters, according to campaign spokesman Alex Burgos. Burgos also referred to Romney’s Facebook account, where the politician is purported to enjoy “horseback riding with my wife” and “waterskiing?...