Word: connection
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David Gordon Green's debut film, George Washington, was a painterly group portrait of preteen anguish. Now that America's most gifted young auteur is 27, he's graduated to kids in their late teens and early 20s but with the same desperate, comic, always human yearning to connect. Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just...
...administration to turn Springfest into nothing more than a community relations photo-op. There are plenty of other events where the University can craft a flattering image of itself. Springfest—and the planning behind it—is an opportunity for Summers to show how he can connect with the undergraduate community, not by grabbing center stage, but by cooperating with the council...
After a University-wide meeting last year to discuss using the Internet to connect faculty and students, the center recruited Winer as an “evangelist to spread the word about blogs,” Palfrey said...
...hangs a framed picture of a giant Mavi billboard in Times Square. "We have nothing to do with Eastern culture." His son is more circumspect, but just as upbeat. "There is a lot of push and pull in Turkey being Muslim and yet Western, but Turkey is trying to connect with the West," he says. And connect they will. Following the New York store, Australia and Scandinavia are in the pipeline. Yes, the Turks are coming, one pair of jeans at a time...
...Midwest was also just dysfunctional enough to keep me interested, though perhaps my ending is not so warm and fuzzy. While my summer travels helped connect me with my native Midwest, my trip also made me feel extremely disconnected at times. My cell phone didn’t get reception in parts of Wisconsin and Michigan (note: it was fine in Canada). In Bayfield, Wis., the motel manager laughed at me when I asked where I could find Internet access. Although the “Let’s Go” researcher-writer itinerary is a solitary experience...