Word: carpe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only thing you could see at the MIT beach back then was carp...
...competition is civilized, sanitized and oddly quiet. We mutter to our friends about how so-and-so doesn’t deserve that job, office or girlfriend, when the same prize has been denied to us. We sit in coffee shops and carp about how everyone else has a summer job, or won a fellowship, and how terribly unfair...
...Kodak CEO Daniel Carp focus the future of photography for you just as sharply as he can: for all the talk about the digital revolution, the rumors about the death of film--and along with it, Kodak--have been greatly exaggerated. Sure, a growing number of shutterbugs are capturing pictures on microchips instead of silver halide. But more than 90% of us, he points out, are still happily taking shots the 19th century...
...clearly a dude ranch, not a working ranch," he says. "But it has everything my family wants--moonlight rides, beer drinking by the lake." For that kind of idyll, you can forgive a few problems. When Fatjo couldn't conquer the seaweed in a newly created lake, he tried carp, then chemicals, and finally filled it in with concrete. "People don't know what pain and heartache it was to get to this point," he says...
Margaret Edson's affecting, Pulitzer prize-winning play about an English professor dying of cancer has been adapted for TV with taste and resourcefulness by director Mike Nichols. The subject is so strong, and Emma Thompson's performance so moving, that it seems a shame to carp. But the TV movie, like the play, treads a predictable path, especially in its portrayal of the insensitive doctors. And the most courageous and startling moment in the stage version--the middle-aged protagonist disrobes in a burst of light at the very end--is inexplicably gone...