Word: creeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russ Marinello, a mortgage broker for Bay Counties Financial, says 80% of the mortgages he originates are jumbos--and no, it's not his specialty. The San Francisco area is unusually pricey. But jumbo creep is a broad issue. The breakpoint adjusts annually to match the rise in the national median home price, 5% last year. Still, in places where home prices are escalating faster than that, more buyers will be pushed into jumbos...
There is a wonderful scene in the early stages of Richard III when two murderers (Clarke and Thandi Parris '02) creep into the bedchamber of the Duke of Clarence (Jeremy Bronson '02). The theatrical chemistry between Clarke and Parris first evidenced is later fully realized in their final confrontation as Richard and Richmond...
...friendship is a tougher job, as this haunting first feature proves. Isa is defiantly sunny, her pal severe, volcanic. Isa tries awful things (like a job handing out flyers on rollerskates) because, hey, they could be "tres cool"; Marie endures awful things (like an affair with a bourgie creep) to confirm her dour view of the world. The stars shared the Best Actress prize at Cannes last year, and both are brilliant. But Bouchez's expressive face lets you speed-read each of a dozen moods in a few seconds. That's innate screen genius...
...beauty of this mechanistic vision of mathematics was that it eliminated all need for thought or judgment. As long as the axioms were true statements and as long as the rules of inference were truth preserving, mathematics could not be derailed; falsehoods simply could never creep in. Truth was an automatic hereditary property of theoremhood...
...official business because they were "together mostly on the weekends." Even her lack of discretion is a relative thing. "For me, only telling 10 people was being pretty discreet." Monica knows her attitude infuriates people but says there isn't much she can do about that. As for the Creep, she says she's over him, doesn't want to speak with him, wouldn't believe him if she did. "He'll tell you what you want to hear...