Word: towering
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...fighters are milling quietly on a sunlit New York City street. Then you hear the roar. It's a jet, too loud, too low. The camera jerks up to catch a shaft of blue sky pierced by American Airlines Flight 11 as it plunges, javelin-like, into the north tower of the World Trade Center...
Associate Professor of Education and Psychology Gil G. Noam warned of the potential for disconnect between the ivory tower of academia and the realities facing service projects on the ground...
...possible,” he says. For the musical aspect of the project, Gfaller gained inspiration from Stephen Sondheim’s work. He played with the idea of musical motifs and tried to give characters song styles that matched their personas. Eliot House gave him access to its tower room piano, once owned by Leonard Bernstein—who had done some literary adaptation himself in the form of West Side Story...
...Honesty wooed the Beijing audience, but Bush's famous bluntness kept them at the antacids elsewhere. On the very day he was offering measured inducements and encouragement to the North Koreans, the president couldn't help a little growling from the DMZ guard tower. After peering through binoculars at the North Korean Peace Museum that displays axes used to kill two American servicemen, he yelled: "no wonder I think they're evil." In public and private, it has also become clear that Bush has a swelling disdain for European officials, relegating the pesky nit-pickers to the itchy class...
...It’s actually kind of cool…If I were going to a big state school or something, it would probably make studying much more difficult because I would be having too much fun reaping the advantages of being a star.” Still ivory-tower academia was not all that Cuomo had hoped. He told Guitar World that “as soon as I get in school, I’m lonely and miserable. Then I start writing.” In a February 8th phone interview with the Harvard Crimson, Cuomo tells...