Word: acidic
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...Your article on the film 300 quoted the actress Lena Headey as saying "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!' And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" And later, from the same actress: "You don't have any emotional props. You can't do this thing of 'Oooh, I'm going to sit on this chair because I feel sad now.'" Did you have to inflict this gobbledygook on us? Couldn't you have paraphrased it and spared...
...Your article on the film 300 quoted the actress Lena Headey as saying "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!' And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" And later, from the same actress: "You don't have any emotional props. You can't do this thing of 'Oooh, I'm going to sit on this chair because I feel sad now.'" Did you have to inflict this gobbledygook on us? Couldn't you have paraphrased it and spared...
...learn to love physics concentrators without six packs. And monkeybread, lots of monkeybread. But then again, so will everyone else. Housed in Lowell? In your single-turned-triple, you and your roommates can sit and discuss lattice theory, Faulkner, and the ancient exquisite art of combating cockroaches with boric acid. In Mather, you’ll have a spacious single, in which you can gather your hordes of new friends and plan a revolution. If you’re in Quincy, prepare to fight next year’s freshmen for “golden nuggets?...
...their emissions to offset Western pollution. The reason this doesn't work--and why the carbon racket is a farce--is that you need a cap for cap-and-trade to work. Sulfur dioxide emissions in the U.S. were capped, and the trading system succeeded in reducing acid rain by half. But even the Kyoto treaty doesn't put any cap on greenhouse gases in China and India, where billions of these carbon credits are traded. Sure, you can pretend you're offsetting Western greenhouse pollution by supposedly cleaning up a dirty coal plant in China. But China is adding...
...that warehouse. The digital--back lot approach places an immense burden on the director. "Zack would go, 'Come and see this stage!'" says Lena Headey, who plays Leonidas' wife. "And we'd go, and there'd be, like, a rock. And we'd be like, 'Has he taken acid this morning? Or what's he looking at?'" Snyder had to make his actors see what he saw, and he saw things that weren't there yet. "Every now and then I'd stop and go, 'This is crazy!'" he says. "'What are we doing?' And then we'd shake that...