Conducting the interviews and editing them into monologues demanded a lot from the cast: interviewing, including writing good questions and taking notes on the interviewees' appearance and gestures; transcribing pages of text; selecting and editing to find the crux of each interviewee's story.
The couloir presented them with three especially steep and difficult passages (each known as a "crux") and had at the top one of mountaineering's greatest hazards, a serac – a glacial ice column that at any moment might collapse without warning.
Neither band scored much in the way of hit singles (the appropriate Phish analog for the Dead's "Touch of Grey" is probably their single "Farmhouse," which for whatever reason seemed ubiquitous amongst a certain sect of youth), made their names primarily off of touring, and the dude who's more or less the crux of each band is the singer/guitarist.
YouTube agreed to pay the record companies a tiny amount for each stream, but — here's the crux of the problem — they pay only when the videos are viewed on YouTube's own site.
The framing is where he suavely elides the crux of the problem in each case.
But the crux is her ability to deliver each song as if it's her own.
"We haven't figured out what we're going to do together, but we sort of have a crush on each other," he told the Catholic news site Crux.
This sharp contrast of the way each novel represents consciousness itself is, I think, the crux of the essay.
In each case, he explores the life selectively, looking for "crux" points and investigating how ideas of the philosophical life have changed.
Unlike, say, hardvapour's eagerness to get behind a single unified label, lo-fi house exists at the crux of a number of sustained styles, each more interested in creating lasting grooves than to bear the weight of fleeting buzzwords.
