Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor Bybee has been well-noticed on the Harvard campus for years now, first catching attention with his impeccable sartorial style and then keeping it with his inimitable wit and charm. He is also known for hiring fairly good-looking, albeit immodest, teaching fellows...
...rock press as eccentric (Details magazine once went so far as to show him Rorschach blots; the verdict was complete sanity) and frequently compared to Pink Floyd's Syd Barret (pre-permanent acid trip), by the end the crowd assembled was ready to call him a lyrical genius, albeit a cryptic...
...Sevigny), tyrannical father (played by renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog), athletic brother Chris (Evan Neumann) and unnamed grandmother (played by Korine's own grandmother, Jorce). In terms of structure, that's about all there is, for donkey-boy is not a traditional narrative. Certainly, there's a sequence of events (albeit bizarre ones)--Julien kills a boy in the park, Julien befriends a blind ice-skater, Julien goes to church, etc.--but no particular story is told. Instead, the viewer is presented with a motley assemblage of images and fragments from Julien's daily life--some of them humorous, some...
Hours before she was assured a spot on the council, over 100 eager supporters and fans filled the restaurant in anticipation of Decker's forthcoming victory. The visibly relieved Decker described the campaign as an amazing--albeit exhausting--experience...
...person. And yet there is something almost diverse about the divisions: "It's very cliquish here," says junior Lauren Bell, "but each group is actually very mixed--it's not all the jocks, all the preps, all the punks, and I like that." Lauren sometimes considers herself an outsider, albeit a straight-A, cheerleading one. "You become a target, not really for looking different, but for thinking different from other people," she says, "like not caring about being popular. That is really asking...