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...directorial debut, Showalter also writes and stars as Elliot Sherman a.k.a. The Baxter. A “Baxter” is “the kind of guy you settle with because you can’t be with the one you love.” Elliot Wilbur Sherman is as exciting as toothpaste. The man reads the dictionary...

Author: By Faith O. Imafidon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...Sandman movies, they just got increasingly appalling. It was really strange. They started out hiring some really good people and you got Elliot and Rossieau and Roger Avary came in and did a draft. They were all solid scripts. And then John Peters fired all of them and got in some people who take orders, and who wanted fistfights and all this stuff. It had no sensibility and it was just...they were horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon | 9/25/2005 | See Source »

When Canadian psychoanalyst Elliot Jacques coined the term midlife crisis back in 1965, he was not talking about a man who, upon turning 40, wakes up the next morning afraid he is going to die, goes in for hair plugs, buys a Porsche and runs off with a cupcake. He was studying creative genius and found that for many artists productivity began to decline as they reached middle age and wrestled with their own mortality. Never a legitimate clinical diagnosis, it was more like a handy way of describing the perfectly predictable process whereby every so often people looked around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midlife Crisis? Bring It On! | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...meet boasts an elite history filled with world champions, record-breaking performances, and track and field legends. Herb Elliot, Roger Bannister, Harold Abrahams, and Lord Burghley all competed for the British while William Schick Jr., ’05, Aggrey Awori ’65, Wendell Mottley, and Ned Gourdin ’21—who set a world record (25’3”) in the long jump at the 1921 contest—all represented the United States. Roger Bannister—who won the mile in 4:11.9 for Oxford-Cambridge in the 1949 contest?...

Author: By Andrew R. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard, Yale Top Oxford, Cambridge for Naughton Trophy | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...Elliot S. Tarloff ’05 is being hailed on the policy debate list-serv as an exemplary loser­—an admirable competitor whose grace underscores the importance of dignity and good sportsmanship...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: They Did Not Win It All | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

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