Word: stringing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Clutch hitting has been the problem all year long," Carmack said. "We've had a fair amount of hits, but we haven't been able to string them together...
...music. Springfest gives students a break from the tedious train of Yo-Yo Ma's, Boston Philharmonics and Mendelssohn String Quartets who regularly file through Harvard's hallowed music halls playing works from centuries past. The council imports a more timely, more popular act so that (at least for one weekend) the most studious students on earth can get down to fanfares intended for common...
...have to invent things for people to do [in screenplays], and you have to work with episodes in architecture and string them together," he said...
...women give birth and by giving birth themselves. "I had no formal training," says Modesta, a traditional midwife. "I'm only learning now how to recognize risk factors and to decrease the risk of infection." Their equipment often consists of little more than cloth, an old blade and a string to tie off the umbilical cord. While the Rwandan government hopes eventually to have most women deliver in hospitals, that is wishful thinking in a country with only a few thousand hospital beds. The best chance of lowering maternal and infant mortality is equipping midwives with a few simple tools...
...hypnotically orchestrated "Dead From the Waist Down," the first single from this second U.S. release, could leave a listener in a bout of ecstatic addiction. It succeeds as one of the few pop songs that uses string instruments without contrivance or false pathos. "I caught a glimpse, and it's not me," rasps Matthews, an utterance worthy of King Lear thrown out into the night. In "Shoot the Messenger," Matthews morphs again to give a convincing invocation of Tom Waits circa his "Rain Dogs" album, albeit with a Welsh twang in tow. Yet overall the album causes a disconcerting flush...