Word: almost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only did lightning strike twice for Frank Darabont, it struck in almost exactly the same spot - a prison, conjured in the mind of Stephen King. Which naturally begs the familiar question: "How is he going to top this...
...described by the Boston Phoenix as "the most astounding rock band to emerge from Boston in quite some time," and has received accolades from the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Stuff@Night, Billboard and other publications. Their heavy, dense sound, while full of feedback and distortion, is at times almost blissful. It's an interesting sound, a mix of the dramatic and tender, full of sonic experiments but still ready to rock...
Because the donated marrow must have an almost exact genetic match with the patient, it usually requires that the donor come from the same ethnic group as the recipient...
...then a student in the house. At that time presses printing from handset type were being cast off by newspapers, and type foundries were closing. Barondess went around the country buying up type and collecting the materials needed to start a press. Since then, it has been running quietly--almost secretly--in this basement under the care of one of the Adams House tutors...
...This kind of project is extremely time-consuming. Every letter is picked from innumerable drawers of type to be strung into a line on a 'composing stick'. Almost all the surfaces in the room are piled under with tiny spears of lead, each tipped with its own character. The tables look beset by a plague of silver locusts. When the letters have been collected they are laid flat on the bed of the press, where the text is meticulously spaced out and held together by flat strips of metal called 'furniture'. The arrangements of this spacing material form the almost...