Word: excepts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mouse’s body is all muscle except for one tiny bone in its head, says Packer, who has been inspecting in Cambridge for the last 12 years...
Jack M. Garvey, 47, who worked as a shuttle driver for five and a half years, said he was dismissed Friday without a formal hearing and that he was not given any severance package except for the paid vacation days he had accumulated...
...Kate Capshaw. The director, Colbert says, "grilled me for about a half an hour about how I got certain shots. He told me David Lean would have done this and John Ford would have done that." But when Colbert, who spent 14 years on the project, had no advice except to be really patient, Spielberg was "a little disappointed." Still, it's nice to know that after four Oscars and billions at the box office, the fella likes to bone up on his craft...
...seems to demand. His style repeatedly breaks its leash, as at the funeral, when the protagonist's brother gives a moving eulogy and his estranged son struggles violently against unbidden grief. But then the narrator interjects that there had been 500 funerals in New Jersey that day and that except for the aforementioned moments, this one was "no more or less interesting than any of the others." It's an astonishing passage: an author arguing, against the evidence of his own prose, that a scene he has crafted is nothing special...
...They’re all local players and they all play with their own horses,” he says. “We’ve got a disadvantage because we’ve got a much more international team, and everyone plays with borrowed or leased horses. Except for me.” What are his horses’ names? Baja, Maggie, Davis, Petra, and Negro. And who are his players? All Harvard grads. Marco Elser from Rome, Hanni Habbas ’86 from London, James McBride from South Africa, and Rhett J. Drugge...