Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will witness strange things during these maniacal days. He will be asked to show his ID to get into the Yard. He will attend a Dartmouth party in Leverett House. He will see thousands of allegedly hip weekend funseekers with nothing better to do than watch an endless stream of grunting crewbies row, row, row their boats gently down the river. He will see trashed teenagers wearing sweatshirts advertising every college and prep school in the Western Hemisphere...
...came to Time Inc. four years after graduating from American University in 1974. For the past two years, he worked as regional vice president in Chicago, where he represented all our company's magazines in the Midwest. There he managed to cultivate an enviable reputation as someone who had endless time to listen to the concerns of his colleagues and clients -- he has been known to miss more than one plane that way -- while getting twice as much business done as his competitors. He also picked up an ugly, if effective, golf swing. We welcome him back, and wish Billy...
However, the movie's appeal does not lie in its weak plot, its predictable dialogue or the performances of the actors. It's the endless travails of its beleaguered hero. The endless scenes of Rudy being tackled, Rudy being told he's too poor/stupid/short to go to Notre Dame, Rudy being tackled by two guys who are both twice his size, Rudy acting frustrated, Rudy getting tackled again, make it virtually impossible to resist rooting for the likeable little...
...story goes something like this. Four pairs of mothers and daughters come to terms with one another after recalling defining moments in their relationships. Among other things, the daughters recount the difficulties of growing up in Asian-American families: the pressure to succeed, the endless pursuit of parental acceptance, the identity crisis. Through all of this, the mothers seem distant, almost uncaring...
...shake the hand of Arafat, then step back half a pace and enfold the two in a wide and gentle extension of his arms with the expectation that the weight of history would bring their two hands together. It did. First Arafat reached out, then after what seemed like endless minutes, Rabin responded. Simple, shattering...