Word: bursting
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...doubt noble, but there's only so many shots of people willing themselves to see something - anything - sacred amid the profane ("His neck is right here, here's the beard, the goatee, his eye, I think that's his eyebrow, this sorta looks like a mole...") before you burst into laughter. The second reaction is something akin to, "How long did it take this person to find all these clips and splice them together?" Reaction number three is obvious - mockery. But the fourth response is the most surprising. A sense of...pity? No. More like empathy for these poor news...
...surprised if the book doesn't come out as scheduled in 2012. If the three-day conference came to any solid conclusion, it was that toting up all the ways our minds can fail is a lot harder than, say, explaining why your appendix might burst...
...Crimson burst out of the gate with an 11-0-0 start and a meteoric rise to the top of the national rankings. After a setback against New Hampshire, Harvard rolled again, sweeping the Beanpot, ECAC Regular Season, and ECAC Tournament titles while going undefeated for the rest of the regular season and through the first round of the NCAA tourney. Current tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt, always respected for her uncanny scoring abilities, became an all-around juggernaut, tallying 26 goals and 36 assists while terrorizing opponents on defense in a transcendent campaign...
Leverett's house list burst into a series of cockroach-fueled horror stories this afternoon. It appears the pests have taken house in the towers, and spread from the laundry areas in the basement, to the top floor. There are even reports of some advanced strains of roach, as one poor Leverite exclaimed...
...Snyder showed this four-minute sequence in New York last fall, Gibbons was in the audience and rose to say, cheerfully, "Didn't suck too bad." I'd go further, and say it's among the zippiest, most thrilling assemblages in modern movies, and the film's single great burst of creation and concision. Three times I've seen the credits sequence, and repeated viewings help harvest new goodies - like the few second showing Silhouette in bed, with another woman, murdered, and WHORES scrawled in blood on the walls in her bed (which is different, by the way, from...