Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we needed to play a bit more aggressively," Reyen said...
...hard drive of my computer is a bit like my closet. To the casual observer, it might look a bit like a whirlwind, a catch-all for everything I once needed or may possibly need again. Underneath the clutter, though, there is a divine order to it all. I know, for instance, that the last column I wrote was saved in my "Foreign Cultures 46" folder, even if you might think it would be in the folder marked "Columns." My last "Frank Lloyd Wright" paper is in that folder, right where I know to find...
...page 1 of the book, Dahl kills off James' parents--they are devoured by a rhinoceros--and, soon after, the wicked Sponge and Spiker. The story then lurches picaresquely amid near catastrophes. Selick gives this all a bit more focus by making sure the early events, including the rhinoceros, resonate throughout the film. He also gives James (winningly played by Paul Terry) a mission: to find his dream city, a Deco-delicious Manhattan. Spider (voiced by Susan Sarandon) here has the melancholy hauteur of a Garbo femme fatale; and the Centipede, obnoxious in the book, is now a Leo Gorcey...
...grow too large; the child sex workers of Thailand and Indonesia, who die slow and painful deaths when they are infected with aids or addicted to drugs; the uncounted thousands of children of Rwanda, hacked to pieces for being Hutu or Tutsi. These children were murdered by monsters every bit as scary as the psychotic who killed the Dunblane children. But because there are no smiling school portraits of them to tug at our heartstrings, because they die in places far from Western attention, they die unmourned and unnoticed. KRISTEN MCDERMOTT Norcross, Georgia...
...Thomas Watt, "can't live with" what happened in Dunblane and thinks he brought a monster into the world. Rather than indulging in these self-absorbed histrionics, Watt should feel shame for abandoning his son when the boy was only 18 months old and for never taking a bit of interest in his child in the years since. Monsters do not spring fully formed from a mother's womb. They become what they are over many years and after many wrong decisions. Had Watt stayed to bring up his son--or at least showed some interest...