Word: contente
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...single Broadway revival since its original run ended in 1954. The show was, I suspect, considered too much of its time - adapted from James Michener?s bestselling, but now largely forgotten, stories of the American occupation in the South Pacific during World War II. Fans and producers seemed content to leave the show consigned to memory, like a favorite family vacation spot that you?re afraid to revisit because it may have gone...
...Indeed, it seems to me the film works better as a comic love story than it does as a sports epic. In its early moments, it features some good, roughneck, on-field shenanigans. The players are simple jocks, content with playing a game of few, loosely enforced rules. But as attention shifts from locker rooms to board rooms, where the real struggle for control of the game's bright, yet much more respectable, future is waged, Leatherheads loses some of its formerly merry ways. It wants to make the case that there is more fun - maybe more simple humanity...
...nature publication, but an April Fools’ parody issue distributed across the country in a collaborative effort between National Geographic magazine and The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon provided and controlled the content for the issue, with articles poking fun at the wildlife magazine’s stories on nature and international events. “I think they’ve been asking for it for a long time, being all high-minded about nature and the world,” said...
...hopefully make a public sector career seem more manageable in terms of debt resolution. By combating the pay disparity between such jobs and more lucrative corporate opportunities, this new tuition aid commendably “levels the field,” allowing students to be motivated more by the content of their careers than by pay scales...
...cars go by. Etiquette dictates that you wear formal clothes in the presence of the national flag. The vast majority of the nation's 700,000 people subscribe to ex-King Jigme Singye's emphasis on something he calls gross national happiness, which measures not just wealth but how content, healthy and well educated people are, as well as the state of the environment and strength of the culture...