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...remorseless familiarity of most movies is one factor cited in the slumping box office: down 7% in 2005. In the U.S. and Canada, that is. But Hollywood films are a global affair, and in the rest of the world, business is fine; theatrical revenues continue to rise. And even that is only a sliver of the story, since studios now make six times as much money from the home market (DVDs, pay-per-view, etc.) as they do from theaters. No moguls need open a vein quite...
...real playoff atmosphere,” said sophomore epee Edward Sherrill. The largest cheering section centered on the area of the room in which the men’s foil was taking place. Crimson junior Enoch Woodhouse won his opening match in a tightly contested affair by jumping over his opponent’s attack and spearing him in the back. The energetic crowd responded to the winning move with cheers of “Whose house? Woodhouse.” The only undefeated weapon for Harvard was the epee, with the fencers for that weapon finishing...
...thoroughly obnoxious, arrogant, condescending intellectual prig,” as he put it, by his teens.A stint fighting in the trenches of World War I resulted in a fairly unsuccessful book of lyric poetry which nonetheless demonstrated Lewis’ considerable talents. Lewis also began an affair with the divorced mother of a friend who died in the war. The relationship would last until the end of her life, decades later. After the war, Lewis went to Oxford and stayed there for nearly the rest of his life. In time, Lewis became the large, loud, Medievalist who laughed deeply...
During the Watergate affair, Felt was the unnamed source known as “Deep Throat” for Woodward and Bernstein’s reporting, providing them with information under the understanding that his identity would not be revealed until his death...
...dances regularly. Wilson sometimes travels two hours to attend them in Raleigh, N.C. Michael Mohan went to one in Denver on a recent Friday and another in Colorado Springs, Colo., the following night. He was excited to see how well members encouraged one another to connect at the Saturday affair. He did his part too, securing phone numbers from four women that night. "I'm not going to stay single forever," he vows...