Word: threading
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...idea has a sort of grandiose simplicity: loot the 20th century for its best popular music, thread the songs together with briskly stylish "footnotes" by Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, have them sung and danced by some of the live liest talent in New York City. The result is theatrical nostalgia as it ought to be done-a delightful musical blowout...
...bureaucracy could possibly create: Questions (specifically in Chem 20) are a mark of the student's stupidity, only stylized rhetoric affirming the bias of course administrations is acceptable as independent thought, and students grab ahold of Harvard's "brand" name and distinguished institutions (e.g., the Pudding) as the last thread of an identity. The problem is that this is not a school, it is a corporation. The school is run for the corporation and not the reverse...
...section on students' reasons for taking leaves, the 36-page study states that a "common thread" among those deciding to leave is "the personal quest involved in the venture." Seventy-three per cent of those surveyed sought a "clearer direction in life," according to the report...
...Thread. As close as any in British history, the election was a cliff-hanger until the very end. Shortly after the polls closed, the BBC projected that Labor would squeeze out a victory, and as the evening wore on, Labor, which is strong in city ridings, surged far ahead. But next day, when results came in from rural areas, the Tories dramatically narrowed the lead. All through Friday, the outcome hung by a thread, with four recounts in some constituencies...
...looks like an ambulatory cypress stump in baggy brown pants. And the raincoat. The raincoat is an oversized, unhung affair in the last stages of decomposition, scarred and seasoned with the grease of a thousand fingers, its hems frayed and stringy, its pockets attached more by habit than by thread...