Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Purdy, home-schooled by his counterculture parents in West Virginia, said he was spurred to write For Common Things by "a keen sense of ambivalence...between the obligation to do public work and the suspicion that that work is futile and self-indulgent."
Purdy described the book not as an attack on irony or a mandate for sincerity, but simply as "an exercise in distinguishing between what should and should not be taken seriously."
With the score tied at 3-3 and the momentum shifting in Harvard's favor, all eyes turned to the No. 4 match between Styperek and Holik.
It also puts viewers in touch with director David Fincher's preferred mise-en-scene, which is almost always dark and, more important, damp--with rusty water, gushing blood and other bodily fluids of less determinable origins. It's definitely a style--see his Seven of a few years ago...
If Bradley's plan is a bold one, there's another B word it also brings to mind: blurry. To begin with, although the former Senator says he's still working on the fine print, most experts, including some who advised Bradley, agree that his $65 billion-a-year cost...