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...modern-day version of one of the hottest party games of all time, 20 questions. The classic mind-bender is captured for the first time in a funky yo-yo size sphere that comes in four bright colors—golden yellow, ocean blue, dark purple, and red. “Are you an animal, vegetable mineral, or unknown?” questions the two-inch LCD screen, daring all cynics to try their hands at beating the game. The glowing orb then asks 19 more questions, letting the user choose between possible answers yes, no, sometimes, and unknown...
...agreed to do bluetights.net "It exposes the amazing technical and sometimes emotional theater that's involved in making films of this type." But is there such a thing as too much information? Does it deplete the movie's magic? On the Superman Returns blog, we see Stephan Bender as young Superman, working in the flying harness and trying to keep his dignity intact, not to mention other sensitive parts of his anatomy. "Nothing's comfortable," the stunt coordinator admits. If you ever believed a man can fly, you may want to skip that entry. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...incident leads Charlotte to question her moral character relentlessly, and engage in a bender of self-doubt in which she is described, simply as “depressed,” literally dozens of times by an uncharacteristically unimaginative Wolfe. Charlotte also mentally appeals innumerable times to “Mama,” her mother back in Sparta, a maternal figure straight out of the ’50s—the 1850s...
...more than her resolve could bear. It's a classic Kennedy moment, the kind of divine comedic intervention that lights up her best fiction and overwhelms the bleakest corners. There could be no more astute and no less tedious a companion than Kennedy on a bender to oblivion. Salman Rushdie said once that what he sought in his novels was to fill the "god-shaped hole" left by his loss of faith. Her faith intact, Kennedy knows that God can be discerned in many things, even in the perfect form - a "long, slim doorway to somewhere else" - of a bottle...
...conclusion of the CEP meeting, then-Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender ’27 emphasized not the financial savings or increased educational opportunities, but that the Blackmer Report entrusted the big three universities to take steps to implement it and revise the U.S. educational system. If universities failed to grant credit for high school courses, professors were concerned, high schools would stop offering advanced classes...