While auto-industry critics have long called for new types of vehicles, such as gas-electric hybrids, Knittel's research underscores the many ways that conventional internal-combustion engines have improved.
The case of the missing gas mileage By Peter Dizikes. @ Source web.mit.edu
arresting
… Variety's Todd McCarthy describes the film as “visually arresting” although “bombastic". Kirk Honeycutt, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, praises the “beauty of its topography, colors and forms.” Empire gave the film 3/5 having a verdict of “Visually stunning, thoroughly belligerent and as shallow as a pygmy's paddling pool, this is a whole heap of style tinged with just a smidgen of substance.” 300 was warmly received by websites focusing on comics and video games. …
“Watch Out” is a single by Alex Gaudino featuring Shèna, released on January 28, 2008. It is the third single released from his debut album My Destination. The second release topically coincided with 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, as the music video features a “video-game” football match played by raunchy women in spandex shorts/tops
If, as I insisted, you'd read Tove Jansson's elliptical, elegant Fair Play or her marvelous The Summer Book, you could perfectly envision the Norwegian island chain where married lesbians Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen [adidas] were eating at their campsite when they heard shots and screams across the water. Did they run and hide? No, they're lesbians, so they jumped in their boat and sped toward the slaughter. The women pulled terrified teens from the water and the rocky coast as the insane far-right gunman shot through their vessel. Unfortunately, there were too many youth to fit in the boat. Hege and Toril ferried the group to safety, then hurried back to the massacre, rescuing another boatload. Then they did it yet again. And still again. Altogether in their four trips they saved forty people from the scene where seventy-six died.
Married Lesbian Couple Rescued 40 Teens from Norway Massacre By Stephen 〔sbottum@gmail.com〕. @
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elliptical = Of or relating to extreme economy of oral or written expression; Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression. (AHD) This word is related to “ellipsis”, which means he omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding (AHD). It is also how the math curve
Ellipse is named. See:
conicsEtynomogy.txt
saucy
She is saucy and heedless at first, headstrong when she shouldn't be, but smart, and able to learn.
Mr. Miller's job, as he made clear in an article last week in The Faster Times, an online newspaper, was to cram together words that someone's research had suggested might be in demand on Google, position these strings as titles and headlines, embellish them with other inoffensive words and make the whole confection vaguely resemble an article. AOL would put “Rick Fox mustache” in a headline, betting that some number of people would put “Rick Fox mustache” into Google, and retrieve Mr. Miller's article. Readers coming to AOL, expecting information, might discover a subliterate wasteland. But before bouncing out, they might watch a video clip with ads on it. Their visits would also register as page views, which AOL could then sell to advertisers.
confection = A composition of different materials. [Obs.]; A sweet preparation, such as candy.; A piece displaying splendid craft, skill, and work.
vaster
What will that mean? If history is any guide, Page's idealistic impulses could result in a vaster, more sprawling company. In 2008, Google participated in an FCC auction for radio spectrum to be used for mobile broadband. By the terms of the auction, if the spectrum was sold above a certain price, the winner would have to allow other companies to run devices on their networks—something Google strongly favored but that telecom companies dearly hoped to avoid. Google executives worried that the telecoms would conspire to keep bidding below that baseline price. So the company got involved in a high-stakes game of chicken. Google would bid on the spectrum, high enough to get it over the threshold, and then bow out. It left Google potentially vulnerable; if nobody else topped its bid, the company would be stuck with a multibillion-dollar piece of spectrum that it was unequipped to exploit. “Google definitely wanted to lose,” the company's chief economist, Hal Varian, says. To Google's great relief, Verizon did top its bid, and the company was off the hook.
Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots By Steven Levy. @ Source www.wired.com
vaster = Very great in area or extent; immense. (AHD)
keynote
When writer Christopher Buckley gave the keynote address at the annual evening banquet of the Yale Daily News last month, he was so outraged by the boorish behavior of audience members, many of whom had been drinking since the afternoon, that he castigated them in a New York Times Op Ed piece.
Higher Education: Crocked on Campus (A backlash against college drinking) By Christine Gorman, Time Mag.
campy
Star Trek has evolved over the years from the brash, sometimes campy original series, with its Day-Glo colors and dimestore special effects.
Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet (Kate Winslet) are children of two different cultures. Juliet's father is an English canon, and the girl is blond, worldly, brash; she was hospitalized for lung disease, and has been brought to New Zealand for the climate. Pauline, whose father manages a fish store, is dark and broody; she has leg scars from the ravages of osteomyelitis. Juliet sees their wounds as badges of spiritual aristocracy: “All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic.”
Logo is lisp, and Object Logo is, by and large, a pruned and manicured version of Apple Lisp
CompuServe post by Mark Warrian, ~1991
sprucing
sprucing up your code …
cheeky
The Chamber has the pace and characters of a thriller, but little else to suggest that it was written by the glib and cheeky author of Grisham's legal entertainments. His tough first novel, the courtroom rouser A Time to Kill, is a closer match, but there Grisham played by the rules of melodrama: the hero won. Here the winner is something called process, the orderly, unemotional, bureaucratic march through the necessary steps before a convict may be poisoned by cyanide in Mississippi's gas chamber.
lots has lots of meanings like a meaning lot, the pedantic lot, almost chosen by lot. When we are in the lot where lots meanings are allotted in lots of ways like lottery, it's a lot of trouble to decipher, and is not fun, despite lots of right in front.