Word: exceptionality
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...borrow a word from Lowell’s volume, Carson is the difficult “paramour” who returns now, five years overdue. Her style, though unsettling and unseen for half a decade except in a few journals, becomes familiar as “Decreation” unfolds in lamentable seriousness, producing a book that intimates its few faults and overwhelms all of its readers’ objections...
...daughter of British actor Laurence Harvey (“The Manchurian Candidate”) and a Los Angeles bounty hunter. She was recently found dead in her bathtub at the age of 36 after an overdose of painkillers. Scott glamorizes Domino’s life (ignoring her death except for a passing mention in the credits, since it happened during filming) in a pseudo-ironic and very unsuccessful way: he seems to both want to show Domino’s delusional love of her bizarre profession and to seduce his audience with that same seedy side...
...defend his family from the government soldiers. Aiming at a nearby gunman, he’s about to shoot when the target removes his helmet, revealing a boy only a year or two older than Chava himself. Chava flees. True or not, the scene seems a bit contrived, except for the genuine shock and horror on Chava’s face.As it turns out, Carlos’s look of shock is genuine. Without telling him, Mandoki dressed the actor’s older brother in fatigues and put him in the scene as Chava’s target. Expecting...
...rush AEPi and then turn down their bid, your actions are anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent. 9. Don’t kiss up, but show your interest. Ask questions. Be polite, but also try to display a little personality. 10. Literal punching is not recommended, except when dealing with members of the Fly. Aim for the spot right between their upturned collar and their backwards visor. 11. Remember, you don’t have to be a sketchy jerk with no respect for women to get into the A.D....but it don’t hurt...
...safe drinking without resorting to draconian tactics. In Allston, the BPD’s penchant for rabid enforcement has only succeeded in making the event more unsafe. In the wake of the 2004 Harvard-Yale tailgate in Allston—a comparative success in anyone’s eyes except those of BPD Captain William B. Evans—the BPD threatened to “crack-down” on any future tailgates. Evans touted this crack-down, which will include parental notification for underage students caught drinking, as a response to students’ inappropriate actions at last...