Word: bumper
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...Casino Royale” debunks most 007 conventions with pleasure, including the pinball-bumper array of women off which James bounces and the resultant bevy of female conquests. Craig scores only once in the film, and even then it’s not made with the traditional smile or joke resulting (in more recent films) in a gruesomely long sex scene. Bond does make it with Vesper, but only after nearly an hour of psychological sparring...
...success that American shows are experiencing internationally is an outgrowth of the fierce competition for audiences at home. As networks have competed for a shrinking piece of the viewer pie, executives have pushed writers and producers to think more imaginatively and outside the box. The result is a bumper crop of one-hour dramas, such as Lost and 24. "This is the golden age of American television," says Newman...
...Harry Lewis would have thought of the Harvard Carnival. Nor do I care. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening, and almost everyone else I’ve spoken to agrees. Sure, it wasn’t a giant kegger, and sure, the line was too long for me to ride bumper cars. But whether it was “matriarchal coercion” or genuine interest, awkward and nerdy Harvard students came together in numbers that we only see once or twice a year to hang out with their friends, and, God forbid, enjoy themselves. Call it state school envy...
...Harvard College Carnival on Friday. The whole thing reeked of state-school envy, a troubling sentiment I feel, if the College is to lead the nation and not merely reflect it. Nevertheless, I did enjoy myself, and for this I congratulate the newly elected College Events Board. The bumper cars were very cool. Enjoyable though it was, the carnival will probably be forgotten. It was like Harvard-Yale without the hookups. Or alcohol. Or meaning. It was also like a large family reunion—noisy and irregular—with everyone smiling on for dear life. The matriarch...
...just having fun dancing with my roommates,” said Sophie Rengarajan ’10 of Grays Hall. “We all got matching hats. It’s roommate-bonding night.” Despite spending almost an hour in line for the bumper cars, Oliver A. Horovitz ’08 said, “I wish we had this when I was a freshman because this is about 800 times cooler than the ice cream social.” The student-run College Events Board (CEB), funded by $200,000 from University Hall, planned...