Word: arid
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...twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person in the world...
...Gossip of the week: Incoming associate editor Racquel E. Arid ’04 enjoys watching cable in her DeWolfe dorm room. “I prefer having cable, because that way there are a lot more channels,” she calculated...Winthrop J resident and incoming editorial director Will C. Benstein ‘03 exits Winthrop via its little-used riverside back door. “I’m convinced that, for trips to Plympton St. and other points east, it saves a few steps” the amateur cartographer mused...Incoming associate editor Mandy...
...core scenes, many of them brutal, to illustrate its story of two gals on the run. Manu (Raffaela Anderson) is a porn star, Nadine (Karen Bach) a hooker with a short fuse. Each woman kills a man, and the two go on a shooting and screwing spree across the arid French landscape. Yet for all its graphic excesses, or because of them, Baise-moi is a serious and original work. It starkly portrays a desperation born of disgust, and then an exultation at lurching into a brief, sociopathic freedom. The movie has something else: a charismatic performance from Anderson...
...Unlike most of my colleagues, I'm a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber; I never understood what was so hateful about "The Seussical"; and I seem to be the only thinking person who had a good time at "Saturday Night Fever." It's those glum chamber musicals with their arid faux-Sondheim scores and glowing reviews that typically leave me cold. So when Susan Stroman - who has won raves for fare both highbrow ("Contact") and lowbrow ("The Producers") - turned to Emile Zola's dark novel "Therese Raquin" as the material for her next musical, I was expecting another succes...
...Unlike most of my colleagues, I'm a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber; I never understood what was so hateful about "The Seussical"; and I seem to be the only thinking person who had a good time at "Saturday Night Fever." It's those glum chamber musicals with their arid faux-Sondheim scores and glowing reviews that typically leave me cold. So when Susan Stroman - who has won raves for fare both highbrow ("Contact") and lowbrow ("The Producers") - turned to Emile Zola's dark novel "Therese Raquin" as the material for her next musical, I was expecting another succes...