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...actors are actually trying to look vacant or if they’ve simply forgotten that the camera is rolling. In an opening scene where Ian accidentally hints at his love for Felicia, actress Amanda Crew delivers a momentary blank stare, as if forgetting to react. The one bright spot is James Marsden’s performance as Ian’s jerk older brother Rex. He delivers lines attacking Ian in a way both brutal and hilarious. Take, for instance, his insight into Ian’s love life: “You’re 18 and you?...
...bright spot is Chief Dull Knife College, named for a Northern Cheyenne hero and fervent advocate for education. It and 36 other tribal colleges and universities, with a total of about 27,000 students, are a little-known part of American higher education. Like the other colleges, Chief Dull Knife was founded in the 1970s in protest over the curriculums that white institutions offered. "There was no connection with the reality at home," says its president, Richard E. Littlebear. The Indian students often had to endure racial cruelty too. "They called us 'prairie niggers,'" recalls...
...failure. But there is also a temperamental failure, which is a lack of discipline and a lack of what for a better term would be an inability to learn from past experience, an inability to adapt to a hostile environment. I mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around his head if he didn't remain loyal to his wife and his family...
...normally by exposing him to flavors but not forcing them upon him. Tastebuds “maturing” may actually be tastebuds dulling.So is being a supertaster a curse or a blessing? I often wish that I could glimpse the sensory world of supertasters where lemon tastes more bright, chocolate more rich, and rhubarb pie more vivid. Knowing when a bowl of chicken noodle soup is stale and not just “interesting” would in fact be helpful, but I would never trade my ability to get pleasure out of any dish for a guaranteed future...
...registration week at the University of Nottingham and hundreds of bright-eyed first-years are filing past recruitment stations manned by groups such as the Lithuanian Club and the Sri Lankan Students' Association. Along the way, a flurry of red, white and blue draws them to a stand promoting a country that could currently do with all the p.r. help it can get: the U.S. "We wanted everything in our stall to look American," says the American Society's vice president Francesca De Feo, seated before a Boston Red Sox pennant and an image of a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Like...