Word: excepts
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...establish characters of any dimension. The boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness of her siblings and the liveliness of city street life. In the end, as if to make up for missed dramatic opportunities, Carolyn Carmichael is suddenly stricken with an undefined terminal illness. But fear...
...opening and closing shots of "Germinal," considered in isolation, suggest quite a different trajectory than what which the film actually takes. The first shot would give the static impression of a painting depicting a mine at the deal of night, except for the constantly reconfiguring shapes of the fires set to dissipate some of the darkness. We see Le Voreux, the mine around which much of the film's action revolves, from the vantage point of Etienne (Renaud), a newcomer who also looks at the scene for the first time...
Faced with an increasingly busy staff of tutors and instructors, President A. Lawrence Lowell, a member of the class of 1977, decided in 1927 to give teachers a complete break for several weeks each semester from all except elementary courses. The time was designated for their own studies and research...
...guess we're excited about reaching a new stage in our lives. I guess we're eager to learn new things, meet new people and (except for the future academics, anyway) earn a license to print money...
Brown, meanwhile, has ceded the initiative on two of the three main issues. On crime -- like all the candidates except radical Democrat Tom Hayden -- she duly supports tougher penalties and California's new, three-strikes-you're-out law, but her failure to justify or explain her personal aversion to the death penalty, which a majority of voters want, leaves her open to charges of being soft on law and order. On immigration, she adamantly opposes Wilson's proposals to deny the children of illegal immigrants their citizenship, schooling and even emergency health care, but may have gone...