To be fair, it is a hard nut to crack.
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"He's a hard nut to crack," said Chad Nackers, the head writer.
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By any "Nutcracker" standards, however, "The Hard Nut" (1991) is particularly multilayered.
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"It is a hard nut to crack to change this model," the Times said.
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But increasing member states' contributions to the budget could prove a hard nut to crack.
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The maid is the only person in "The Hard Nut" who selflessly enjoys small pleasures.
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It's a hard nut to crack and yet we still want to go at it.
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"This is a hard nut to crack, in part because social networks are dynamic," Stein says.
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However, if recent events are anything to go by, it is a hard nut to crack.
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Open for a longer run will be Mark Morris's Pop Arty "The Hard Nut" (Dec. 14-23).
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Morris's "The Hard Nut" is not only the best "Nutcracker" alternative, it's one of the best versions period.
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With China's heavily censored market proving a hard nut to crack, India is at the heart of that growth.
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If some girl's looking at her funny, and she's known as this hard nut, she can't show herself up.
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The maid is the tutelary genius of "The Hard Nut," the one who embodies the spirit of the piece.
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"It is such a hard nut to crack because the education system is so steeped in bureaucracy," Ms. Brooks said.
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It's a sonic divorce, the hard-nut uncle you've always suspected might be harboring satin sheets in his post-divorce bachelor pad.
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Over sushi, the Cyborg talked wilderness survival tips, evasion tactics, and the strange role that Christianity plays in his hard-nut life.
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A hard nut to crack, even for a supercomputer, which is why this is also considered an NP problem in computer science.
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But she and her colleagues had less luck with intelligence, which has proved a hard nut to crack for a few reasons.
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There's an immediacy to it; spoken out loud, "crack seed" sounds like what it is, the hard nut breaking under the teeth.
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He also had generous words for opposite number Carlos Queiroz, a master tactician who has made Iran an extremely hard nut to crack.
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Socialization is a hard nut to crack and, often, getting rid of the judgement we put on ourselves can be the hardest part.
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"Nissan has been a hard nut to crack for the U.A.W.," said Kristin Dziczek, a labor expert at the Center for Automotive Research.
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And in "The Hard Nut," by Mark Morris, the dancers, male and female, throw snow while dashing across the stage in sleek formations.
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So because I'm one tough cookie, one hard nut to crack, one motherfucker you don't wanna mess with, I still punch things every day.
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I remember giving a woman a rock-hard, nut-filled nutrition bar only to notice that she hardly had the teeth to chew it.
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But operating in China, at a time of rising trade tensions between Beijing and Washington, has proven a hard nut for U.S. tech heavyweights to crack.
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If they crack the notoriously hard nut of high health care costs, we can thank the country's weird and unloved employer health system for their discovery.
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Participants will also have the opportunity to learn sections from Mr. Morris's holiday classic, "The Hard Nut," which returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December.
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Snow does not fall around the corps de ballet of dancing Snowflakes but is released by them in explosive handfuls (hello, Mark Morris's "The Hard Nut," new in 1991).
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"There is a hard nut of support for Donald Trump that includes some unsavory types of people, who are probably never going to be readers of the Huffington Post," Polgreen acknowledged.
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Schwarz's combinatory and contradictory practice squeezes the hard nut of reality through a formal filter that transforms a familiar device, the graffiti tag, into a form of pure abstraction wrapped in historically aware quotation marks.
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Since then, the conversion problem has remained a very hard nut to crack, which is one reason why bitcoin derivatives were invented: You can now buy exposure to bitcoin without having to buy the currency itself.
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It will be Mr. Morris's eighth full-length work, and a return to narrative after several seasons; his previous story works have included "Dido and Aeneas" (1989), "The Hard Nut" (1991), "Sylvia" (2004) and "Romeo and Juliet" (2008).
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SOE (state-owned enterprise) reform will be a hard nut to crack though there may be some M&A (mergers and acquisitions), the government may shift around what they do slightly, but there's going to be no big transformation there, either.
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I know only two productions that play all of Tchaikovsky's score in the right order — Mark Morris's "The Hard Nut" and Alexei Ratmansky's American Ballet Theater production, both of which count as alternative versions, changing the story more than most. 7.
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And in Mark Morris's "The Hard Nut," returning to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, there are plenty of them, from the pop-art designs inspired by the cartoonist Charles Burns to the yule log burning on a television set during the party scene.
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We can tell she's trying, but there's a sense that the social dynamics of Serial's quest to go behind the scenes of the inside of the law will perhaps be a hard nut for Koenig and her reporting partner, assistant producer Emmanuel Dzotsi, to crack.
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" A picture caption on Wednesday with an article about the fake snow used in "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" and "The Hard Nut" by Mark Morris misidentified the dancer shown between Ashley Hod and Lydia Wellington in a 2013 New York City Ballet performance of "The Nutcracker.
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He's written virtually no Who lyrics, composed virtually no Who music, and in his various Who phases — long-jawed hard-nut mod sneerer, psychedelic crooner/teaser, bare-chested super-rock blusterer — he has essentially enacted the visions and mood swings of the band's prodigious guitarist and songwriter, Pete Townshend.
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Those by Richmond Ballet (Virginia), Ballet West (Salt Lake City) and Ballet Arizona (Phoenix) stay fondly in my memory, as do Mr. Morris's version ("The Hard Nut" is performed this December at the Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Mr. Ratmansky's (which Ballet Theater gives this December in Costa Mesa, Calif.).
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" He was Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., not Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. • A picture caption on Wednesday with an article about the fake snow used in "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" and "The Hard Nut" by Mark Morris misidentified the dancer shown between Ashley Hod and Lydia Wellington in a 2013 New York City Ballet performance of "The Nutcracker.
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"The Hard Nut" — a comedy that never loses its cartoon quality — turns out also to be a love story, and when Marie and the Nutcracker find love with each other, they aren't alone: The music for the Sugar Plum adagio becomes an adagio for the whole world, with characters from every part of the narrative returning.
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My nap meets Approvance on terms 7lb worse than weight-for-age and Jimmy Lenehan's tough six-year-old will be a hard nut to crack.
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High strength distorted thread nuts cannot be used with low strength fasteners because the hard nut will act like a die and destroy the threads on the fastener.
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La gatta da pelare (A Hard Nut to Crack) is a 1981 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Pippo Franco. It is his only film as a director.
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The character of Gary is quite one-sided at first with him being presented as a typical bad boy. Actor Mikey North who portrays the character told the Scarborough Evening News that he is a hard nut type of guy but has plenty more side to come out stating: "Gary has a lot of sides to him. He is a bit of a hard nut, but also a charmer with the ladies.". Also he calls his character a lovable rogue.
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The winery was founded in 1952 by Joseph Zeltzer as Eliaz Winery in the town of Binyamina. In those early years it produced mostly sweet wines and table wines, although it was also known for producing liquors under the label Hard Nut, named after Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion, who was a "hard nut to crack". In 1994 it was purchased by a group of investors who renamed the winery and invested in new vineyards and technology. In 2008 the winery was purchased by supermarket chain Hatzi Hinam.
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Dispersal of the species is by birds attracted to the colourful pedicel to which the nut is attached. The digestive juices of the bird weaken the hard nut, allowing the internal seed to germinate more easily Propagation of the species has proved to be difficult.
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In 1991, choreographer Mark Morris commissioned him to create illustrations that were then used as a basis for his version of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, calling it The Hard Nut. Burns's style was a source of inspiration for Martin Ander's artwork for Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson's solo project.
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The walls of the nut are ribbed, a feature unique to this genus in the family. The seed has a white center and it probably contains poisonous cyanogenic compounds like some species of Macadamia. These toxins do not deter rodents from eating through the hard nut and devouring the seeds, limiting the regeneration of this plant.
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The taste is variable, generally sweet and sour, but may be more of one or the other depending on the tree. The fruits are highly aromatic. It has a hard nut which is usually round in shape, sometimes more ovoid, 1.3-2.2 cm by 1.3–2 cm in size, and containing 1 to 3 seeds and a homogeneous endosperm.
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Ensure the capsule receives adequate moisture and warmth in the cooler months. Trying to open the hard nut in the middle of the fruit, or hitting the capsule with a hammer has proven useless. The best technique appears to be the removal of the outer blue/purple flesh. Then exposing the inner capsule to sunlight and moisture.
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Eidothea hardeniana trees have pale lichen covered bark typical of many species in the Warm Temperate Rainforests. Often a ring of coppice shoots surrounds the base of an adult tree, coppice and seedling leaves have spiny marginal teeth, while adult leaves have no teeth. Flowers are cream, occur in clusters and smell of aniseed. Fruits are large and rounded with a yellow green skin and a hard nut inside.
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The erhu does not use a hard nut to define the vibrating length of the open string, but rather a qiān jin (千斤), a loop of string, or, less commonly, a metal hook. Some guitars have a rolling nut. In this design, made popular by Fender, the strings sit on roller bearings instead of nut slots. The rollers let the string freely slide or roll through the nut.
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The palm is often cut down in Brazil to use the leaves and inflorescences to provide animal (cattle) fodder, especially in times of drought. The leaves are similarly used in Argentina. Its fruits are edible and sometimes eaten; consisting of a hard nut surrounded with a thin layer of fibrous flesh that is orange and sticky when ripe. The flavour is sweet and could be described as a mixture of plum and banana.
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A species of hard nut is gaining popularity as a replacement for ivory, although its size limits its usability. It is sometimes called vegetable ivory, or tagua, and is the seed endosperm of the ivory nut palm commonly found in coastal rainforests of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Fossil walrus ivory from animals that died before 1972 is legal to buy and sell or possess in the United States, unlike many other types of ivory.
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The inflorescences hang in long rows beneath the level branches and are at their best in late May. On a breezy day, the bracts flutter in the wind like white doves or pinched handkerchiefs, hence the English names for this tree. The fruit is a very hard nut about 3 cm long surrounded by a green husk about 4 cm long by 3 cm wide, hanging on a 10 cm stalk. The nut contains 3–6 seeds.
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Transjordan theatre of operations 21 March to 2 April; 30 April to 4 May and 20 to 29 September. Detail shows advance to Amman The defences at Amman had been greatly strengthened since the First Transjordan attack on Amman in March 1918, by the construction of a series of redoubts that were reinforced by machine guns. In addition, "the natural difficulties of the broken country made Amman a very hard nut to crack."Powles 1922 p.
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Each flower head only produces a few large, hard nut-like seeds, which are collected by ants and stored underground. In the fynbos, where this species grows, fires occur naturally every one or two decades, and few flame pincushions survive. When afterwards the rain carries specific chemicals that are created by the fire underground, the seeds germinate and the species is so "resurrected". The burnt biomass also provides nutrients to the soil which may assist new growth.
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Not only do they want the thing that is being bid on, they also want to win, just to win. Taking advantage of someone's competitive nature can drive up the price. Brinksmanship: One party aggressively pursues a set of terms to the point where the other negotiating party must either agree or walk away. Brinkmanship is a type of "hard nut" approach to bargaining in which one party pushes the other party to the "brink" or edge of what that party is willing to accommodate.
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Dealing with the menace of piracy, amongst other problems, became a hard nut to crack; as a result of this, most investors of the "Alaba cartel", who control almost 90 percent stakes in the video industry, began to channel their money into other business ventures instead. The decline of the Home video era has been attributed to several factors, such as the refusal of the Government to provide support and funding, the lack of a formal and effective indigenous film distribution infrastructure and the increase in the cost of production in Nigeria.
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Cotroni was born in Montreal in 1931. His oldest brother, Vincenzo, was 20 years older born in 1911 in Mammola, Calabria, Italy, and immigrated to Montreal in 1924 with his two sisters, Marguerita and Palmina, and his brother Giuseppe; his other brother Michel, was later born in Montreal like Frank.Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, pp. 245 Within Montreal, Cotroni was known to French-Canadians as Les Gros ("the Big Guy") and to Italo-Canadians as Il Cice (an Italian phrase for the soft center of a hard nut).
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The Trojans had the better record, a significantly more potent offense and a defense which was almost twice as stingy as the Thunder's, giving them the tag of favourites for the game. But this was again was just down to the Trojans playing ball in the North, but everyone connected to the game knew the former Premier Thunder would be a hard nut to crack, more so with the return of many players. Under horrendous conditions the Trojans out ran, out passed but failed to outscore the Thunder who took the Bowl with a 10-7 win.
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He was a successful Test captain, leading Australia to five wins and two losses; four matches finished in draws. Many nicknames attached themselves to Collins, including "Lucky" and "Horseshoe" as a result of his reputation for fortune, especially when it came to tossing the coin. His players called him "Maudy" (probably because of his left-handedness) and "Nutty"; it is unclear if this was because he used his "nut" (head) or was a hard nut to crack. Mailey nicknamed him "The squirrel", claiming that Collins eyes glowed at night, enabling him to see better at night than by day.
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Flowers are hermaphroditic, having both male and female organs. The fruit is a three-lobed inflated papery capsule that is 3–6 cm long, of a faint reddish colour, showy, containing several hard, nut-like seeds which are 5–10 mm in diameter with a pink color. The bark is thin and brown. Branches are upright growing, bend down somewhat as the tree grows, they might break due to poor collar formation, pruning is required to build a strong branching structure and a single stem, if wished, and also for the pedestrians and vehicles clearance if necessary.
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Fort Cumberland (originally built by the French as Fort Beauséjour in 1750) was in an advanced state of disrepair by 1776.Clarke, p 45 Goreham set his men to reconstruction, both the buildings and the earthworks, but work went slowly due to the shortage of supplies and equipment, and lack of assistance from the local population, who were mostly pro-patriot.Piers, p 154 With winter approaching, Goreham had his men put more effort into the accommodations than the fortifications. In spite of this, the fort would be a hard nut to crack by any rebel force without artillery.
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During his life, and the period shortly following his death, the music of Draeseke was held in high regard, even among his musical opponents. His compositions were performed frequently in Germany by the leading artists of the day, including Hans von Bülow, Arthur Nikisch, Fritz Reiner, and Karl Böhm. However, as von Bülow once remarked to him, he was a "harte Nuß" ("a hard nut to crack") and despite the quality of his works, he would "never be popular among the ordinary". Draeseke could be sharply critical and this sometimes led to strained relations, the most notorious instance being with Richard Strauss, when Draeseke attacked Strauss’s Salome in his 1905 pamphlet Die Konfusion in der Musik -- rather surprising, as Draeseke was a clear influence on the young Strauss.
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Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review stating: > You could be forgiven for thinking Katy B is a bit of a hard nut - after > all, she's already collaborated with hardened artistes of the garage/dubstep > world Magnetic Man and Ms Dynami-tee-hee, both of whom you'd be a fool to > mess with after a round of Red Stripes. However, one listen to her latest > chart botherer and such fears simply melt away. "I would toss and turn at > night with your voice in my head," she confesses over a thumping garage beat > reminiscent of late-'90s pop combined with a bang-on-trend D&B; bassline. > While the melody remains as grimey as her previous offerings, her vulnerable > and grief-stricken vocal immediately softens the song's sharper edges, > culminating in an achingly sad but sonically uplifting ending that Robyn > would be proud to call her own.
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He has worked extensively in opera, directing and choreographing productions for the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, English National Opera, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, among others. He directed and choreographed King Arthur for English National Opera in June 2006, and in May 2007 he directed and choreographed Orfeo ed Euridice for the Metropolitan Opera. He is the recipient of 11 honorary doctorates. Notable works by Morris include Gloria (1981), set to Vivaldi; Championship Wrestling (1985), based on an essay by Roland Barthes; L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1988); Dido and Æneas (1989); The Hard Nut (1991), his version of The Nutcracker set in the 1970s; Grand Duo (1993); The Office (1995); Greek to Me (2000); a dance version of the Virgil Thomson–Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts (2001); the ballet A Garden (2001); V (2002) and All Fours (2004).
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With the Luo threat dissolved and most members toeing the line, Gema soon found its next target. Almost clocking ten years in the vice presidency, Daniel arap Moi was supposedly seen as a soft target for the hard-line Gema, which having gone through the tougher motions of diffusing Jaramogi, Mboya and JM. But Njonjo, who was to be a hard nut to crack, in 1976 warned Gema heavyweights he would not hesitate to open treason charges against them for imagining the death of the president Kenyatta. The warning ended countrywide tours organised by Kihika, Mungai, Karume, Ngengi, and others who had been pushing a 'Change the Constitution' crusade to bar Moi from ascending to the presidency in the event of Kenyatta's death. When Mzee Kenyatta died in his sleep in 1978, Njonjo convened a Cabinet meeting in which Gema kingpins such as Koinange, Mungai, and Angaine had to watch their dream of retaining the presidency dissipate.
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