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With his British accent and shaggy gray eyebrows, Pearsall looks like the stereotypical professor of medieval English literature. In other words, he doesn't immediately seem like someone who'd leave the stacks of Widener too often...
...next day, I was awakened again at 7 a.m., this time by a woman with a heavy Irish accent, who threatened to have me Ad-Boarded and to have "my privileges revoked" if I didn't return the key to a Paine Hall practice room right away. Once I realized she was talking about my roommate, I put her on hold and tried to find him. He wasn't home...
...this guy who I barely knew. My friends used to take notes on what he wore or things he said and relay the into back to me. One day, I decided to call him up and find out who he liked. To conceal my identity, I faked a French accent and pretended I was a foreign exchange student named Monique. About a minute into the conversation, my crush said, "[Debbie], is this you? I immediately hung up the phone, mortified. He eventually became one of my best friends, but I will never live down the "Monique incident...
...films--which can be seen as metaphors of an aging man seeking a last acolyte, either as lover or victim--are extended conversations between experience and ingenuity. McKellen does most of the talking, in a gentle English accent or a brusque German one, but what makes him a great shot for film eminence is how suavely he listens. Listens with his eyes, attentive to nuances of lust or fear that may not even be there. Reacts with a prim wryness that hints at the Nazi's superiority, at Whale's indulgence. These lovely scenes give the audience a chance...
...want to die," she quietly moans in a brief and uncharacteristic moment of weakness. The sweet-faced receptionist assures us in a gruff Boston accent, "I never ever heard of anyone dying from paintball." Eighteen Tufts students and eager young boys with their fathers gather in the paint-splattered waiting room. My friends and I sit down and admire a particularly deadly-looking weapon lying on the table...