Word: abound
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...restaurant while FM was dining, commenting on the clientele would not mean much. However, from past experience, the Olé patrons are well-versed in the ways of Mexican food and are prepared to ask for their menu wishes in the accent of the Oaxacans. Typical Cambridgey people abound; sanctimonious and dressed in Birks and burlap, they feast on authenticity, while their Boston sisters simply eat because Olé was named “Best of Boston” about 800 times by Boston Magazine. For the latter, the magazine’s picks rate about as highly...
Rave reviews abound concerning the revamped cardiovascular exercise room and the three new and improved weight rooms. The unisex weight room boasts refreshing air conditioning, and as John V. Mulcahy ’04 notes about all three rooms, “There are more machines than I know what to do with!” Whether buffing abs, arms, legs or chest strike your fancy, the new equipment promises to transform, with time, an athletically intrepid Harvardian into a hulking mass of muscle—or at least a sweatier version of his or her former self...
...only are we suddenly confronted with the very real possibility of traffic tie-ups without fistfights, other signs of patience abound as well. Last week, for example, my commuter train was leaving Grand Central at about 7 p.m. It had been, for all aboard - and there were more of us than usual, since the traffic tie-ups and, more significantly, the Mayor?s ban on cars carrying only one passenger, had enticed some suburbanites into leaving their cars at home - a long day at the office. The train chugged desultorily through the darkness of Grand Central, then stalled; it didn...
...every superfluous character and lapse in logic—and there are many—Don’t Say a Word provides a genuine scare and unexpected plot twist. Purists may be annoyed by the myriad loose ends that abound even as the credits begin to roll, but those with a sense of humor will enjoy the unintentional comedy of the inconsistencies in the plot...
...good, they are evil; we are democratic, they are authoritarian; we are free, they are rigidly controlled by an oppressive government. Opposites abound. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has been floundering about, searching for a comparable rival, and finally in China, it has found a “them” to oppose the ever-angelic...