Word: excepts
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...bratty kids so much he gets soupy-poetic over watching them blow bubbles. He does (in maybe my favorite moment in the film) a devastating DeNiro impression. Most heroically, he tolerates his numbing marriage to super-bitch Debbie. "Marriage," he tells Ben, "is like that show Everybody Loves Raymond. Except it's not funny...
...Unlike some of this movie's skeptics, I don't mind Rogen. He has sweet eyes, a voice too deep and rich for his age and, in his one nude scene (Heigl doesn't get one, as Mr. Skin will tell you, except for a gynecological closeup late in the film) a cute tush. But by Hollywood beauty standards, he's so on the lower side of ordinary, he almost doesn't belong in movies. That's one good thing about Apatow: he subverts the medium's inherent aesthetic fascism - survival of the cutest - and puts funny people center-screen...
...assume that those of its adherents whose theology brooks no separation of civil and religious authority will be motivated by the same incentives that we in the West are. This type of critical thinking finds rare enunciation in a place where all cultures and peoples are equal—except the uniquely deplorable entities that are Harvard and the United States...
...Stationed as they are beside an inflatable figure of a boxer, a couple of cardboard boxes, and some old posters of UC-sponsored events featuring Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, they hardly appear to be anything except another bit of refuse, a relic of a hasty move-in. But to the members of the UC, these binders are the archives, and—with the UC currently in its 25th session—some of them are verging on a quarter-of-a-century...
...when it comes to the journalistic career of William E. McKibben ’82, the humor comes more crisply if the deficit in question is read to be one of attention to anything except reporting...