Word: bookishness
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...Luke Woodham, 16, bookish and overweight, drove a white Chevy Corsica up to his high school. That was already a sign of trouble: the young man had poor vision and was driven to school every day by his mother. But three hours earlier that morning, Mary Ann Woodham, 50, had been stabbed to death with a butcher knife in the home she shared with her son. Luke Woodham walked into Pearl High's commons, an enclosure created by the school's buildings. He then took a .30-.30 rifle from beneath his blue trench coat and opened fire, wounding seven...
JENNIFER'S BOOKISH WAYS...
Dusan Makavejev, a visiting lecturer and a well-known international filmmaker who advised Oppenheimer's film thesis, explains that scenes like the baby in the ocean and the more striking image of a baby "burning" in a microwave succeed because Oppenheimer's storytelling is intriguing but not overly "bookish...
...Chapel Hill is such a literary, bookish town," she says, nothing that she wanted to write as long as she can remember...
...Simon Bossell), who suddenly encounter the object of their long-lost high school obsession, Melissa (Saffron Burrows), at the hotel. A lonely stockbroker, Stephen finally sees a chance to express his love for the girl he never had, while Melissa is desperately trying to rekindle the romance with her bookish fiance. Rick, disillusioned with love, works as the cynical manager of the hotel and finds renewed hope with the arrival of his one-time summer sweetheart...