Word: beg
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Movies can convince us of the impossible; they have trouble with what Hitchcock called "the implausibles." Both Single White Female and Raising Cain too often beg the question "Why would such a smart person do such a stupid thing?" Single White Female gets its best thrills early on, when Hedy is falling in love with Allie -- and filling the void inside both of them. Sisterhood never looked so vulnerable. "You haven't been yourself," Allie says to Hedy. "I know," her would-be twin replies. "I've been...
...appearance of agranulocytosis -- marked by a drop in white blood cells -- is always tragic. Some patients, when informed that they must immediately go off clozapine, beg to remain on it rather than descend again into madness. Phil, 36, was awakened by clozapine after 13 years of suffering. Thanks to the drug, he was able to work part time in a grocery store and start up a social life. Then agranulocytosis struck, and he had to be taken off the drug. "He has his voices and moods again," his father reports sadly. "We'll just have to wait for something else...
...suburbanite like me, all these similarities beg the question: What if the whole Rodney King affair had occurred in the D.C. area rather than in L.A.? What if white D.C. cops had been videotaped beating a Black motorist? What if the trial had been moved from D.C. to Potomac, as it was from L.A. to Simi Valley...
...criticisms of the April 27th staff editorial. Your ill-drawn conclusions and insinuations beg a response. By not even asking us why the SAA did not sign the letter and implying that we oppose Counter, The Crimson has disserviced its readers and insulted...
...Crimson articles on racial "diversity" by Ira Stoll and Joanna Weiss and the subsequent editorials regarding the work of the Harvard Foundation for Race Relations beg a response. Because we have a revolving student body that may be misled by the misinformation in the editorials and earlier articles by the Crimson groups, and faculty who may be led to believe that the views expressed in the articles represent the student consensus, we at the Harvard Foundation must set the record straight...