Word: bloodhounds
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...risk Skin takes is with Goldman, who makes a surprisingly appealing flesh peddler. You could mistake him for the respectable entertainment mogul that he believes he is. Like Satan in Paradise Lost, he's the devil who gets all the best lines--he's wry and perceptive, with a bloodhound's nose for other people's hypocrisies...
...buildings, including the roof of a nearby school. The troops called for backup vehicles and returned fire but failed to quell the shooting. One soldier was hit in the back; the bullet went through his ceramic vest, ripping his shirt but failing to pierce the skin. The unit's bloodhound wasn't so lucky: it had to be evacuated after taking a bullet...
...might have--but she didn't. Franklin was the intellectual equal of Watson and Crick, but she lacked the advantage of a sympathetic collaborator, and she simply wasn't the prizewinning type. She was a bloodhound, cautious and implacable, whereas Crick and Watson were greyhounds who lived for the sprint. When they made their triumphant announcement, Franklin was gracious in defeat, accepting her peripheral role with an equanimity that surprised her colleagues. When she encountered Watson and Crick later in life, they met as friends. She probably never knew what a central part her X rays had played in their...
...Anchored Down in Anchorage” by Michelle Shocked (Mary E. Bridges ’01), “Unsent” by Alanis Morisette (Jon M. Vatner ’01), “Ballad of Chasey Lain” by the Bloodhound Gang (Alex J. Kauffmann ’02), and “Pen Pals” by Sloan (Thalia S.Field ’03, our eminent music editor...
...where he took his own pooches. He liked the "very low-key, nice people" but noticed that their discussions about dogs "sounded like they were about children." This struck him as funny, and he spent a year visiting dog shows. The director--who appears in his film as a bloodhound owner who really wants to be a ventriloquist--is also into technique. "In the past 10 years," he says, "film has become very unspontaneous, whether it's using digital technology or being very storyboarded. This is the other end of the spectrum. Yes, it is just people talking, but that...