Word: ardently
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...OC” opened with a (gasp) metaphor. Has the show achieved literary merit? Mmm, sort of. Marissa Cooper recounted—via nightmare—her shooting of Trey, Ryan’s brother, in last spring’s season finale. The vision represents ardent attempts by the show’s writers to remember a time when the show was at its sleazy best. And with last week’s episode, they succeeded! Sort of. Ryan and Marissa had some more relationship troubles, as she got closer to Johnny, but, instead of the episode ending with...
...condoms full of truth, and I'm smuggling them across the border!"--that his glee is infectious. Like the band Weezer or The O.C.'s Seth Cohen, he is in the grand modern tradition of the swaggering nerd. (The nerd part, by the way, is not unautobiographical. An ardent Lord of the Rings fan, Colbert is the proud owner of a portrait of Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn--drawn in frosting inside a chocolate frame--that the actor gave him after a Daily Show appearance...
...real questions about the judge's record on civil rights, women's rights and workers' rights. "It's sad that [Bush] felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America," Schumer said. "The President seems to want to hunker down in his bunker." Alito is an ardent conservative who will be hard to caricature, but will provide plenty of fodder for an ideological showdown. As a sign of the potential battle ahead, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to ask Alito about abortion. The new justice could become the tie-breaking vote on abortion restrictions...
...year to keep their lively catalog in the projectors and real butter on their popcorn. In conversations with Harvard students, faculty, and alumni, managers from competing area film venues, and the directors of the Brattle, The Harvard Crimson explores the question of what turned the ardent romance between the independent cinema and the bohemian Harvard Square into the lover’s quarrel threatening to oust the Brattle today.AN UPHILL BRATTLEFinancial problems are no stranger to the Brattle. Created as a live performance space in 1946, which John I. Simon ’46, theater reviewer for Bloomberg News, remembers...
...that relates to the theory of evolution. “The theory is not a fact,” the statement says. “Gaps in the theory exist for which there is no evidence.” That much is obvious; I doubt that even the most ardent Darwin fan would dispute that claim. However, the fun begins a bit further on in the school board’s masterpiece of archaism: “Intelligent design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin’s view...