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...latest episode of Protesting French Workers Do the Darndest Things, laid-off employees at the New Fabris car-parts factory have come up with a novel method of negotiating their severance pay. Either they're given $41,000 per employee as part of the company's closure, they warn, or they'll blow the entire plant to smithereens...
Krieger called a 2010 completion date ambitious. “They will certainly try their darndest,” he said when asked whether the design would be completed in time for the Expo...
...going to a football player and cheerleader convention masquerading at the Harvard Club of Boston as some sort of consulting firm. “Yeah, of course—oh wait, not sure, I’m committed to a pre-Krokodiloes engagement.” Roommates are the darndest thing. And almost universally, at Harvard at least, they become families. I’m not sure there’s a moral to this endpaper; it’s meant simply to illustrate the clashing of two distinct kinds of Harvard families—and I couldn?...
...screenwriting was the answer to a crisis of self-confidence.Although Smith has a passion for creative writing, after two semesters of applications he had yet to be admitted to a fiction class in the English department. “I’d been trying my darndest,” he says ruefully. When he heard about a non-credit screenwriting workshop in Winthrop House, he tried his hand at that.The seminar, taught by Winthrop tutor Andrew Arthur, proved to be a godsend. Screenwriting provided a path for Smith not to “take [himself] so seriously...
...could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips. Kids say the darndest things; adults repress them. Only in an extreme case--like that of Neil, a sensitive scholar who has become a derelict, with speech rhythms and nervous tics that suggest the young Tony Perkins--does 28 Up offer a character as full and mysterious as we might find in a novel, or in an old friend. But it is not Apted's failing that he refuses to unearth tabloid headlines...