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Phoenix tries hard to be a blank slate, but his actual biography is quite juicy. He was born (with that distinctive scar over his lip) in Puerto Rico to parents who were missionaries for the religious cult Children of God. By the time he was 8 years old, the family had moved to Los Angeles, where his mother was a secretary in the office of an NBC casting director, paving the way for Joaquin's debut on the series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Phoenix worked consistently until his early teens but quit acting after appearing in Ron Howard...
...girl hit me, so he called a foul, but you never know if a ref’s going to call that. So that was pretty lucky.”Less than a minute later, Brown almost won the game once again. Bears forward Kathleen Waddell had a point-blank shot on goal, but Shields dove to the ground and smothered the shot.“Our defense is really, really solid,” freshman forward Erin Wylie said. “We have an amazing keeper and an amazing back four. The last couple of minutes [of overtime...
...mediated by literary allusion. As tender as it is to remember visiting her mother being “like starting in on a piece by Beckett,” the epigraph she leaves is bare and cold: “There is so much wind here stones go blank.” The book is penned in defiance of this natural erasure, with Carson’s remembrances acting as a moving apotheosis for their subjects...
...more loosely packed lounge with tables and chairs. The place is always loud, and the noise of your jawbones vibrating against each other will probably thwart attempts at conversation. It makes me sad whenever I mention t.t.’s to a fellow Harvardian and get a blank stare in response. If you care about rock, even a little bit, you should scan the t.t.’s website calendar for an act you’ve heard of. Even if you haven’t heard of any of them, Google them till you find one that...
...student of the fifth grade. Even when bribed to read with a late bedtime, cookies and milk—for him, the equivalent of a postponed death sentence and a last supper at Ruth’s Chris—he abstains, staring all too wistfully at the nearest blank television screen. So in searching for a way to challenge his plastic mind without turning him and it off, this summer I found a surprising solution: The Cartoon Network show “Family Guy.” The show is seldom considered educational and appropriate for children, but after...