Word: expectant
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...Paul Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy, In Good Company) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential). Its distributor had a modest goal: "If it comes in with double digits," said Universal's Nikki Rocco, "that will be a win for us." Instead, it cadged just $6.3 million. Expect no sequels du Freak...
...Rizzo has worked with the likes of Coldplay, k.d. lang, Alanis Morissette and Paul Oakenfold, and brings to the project all the consummate, knob-twiddling expertise that you would expect of a two-time Grammy nominee. Huun Huur Tu's sparse, ethereal songs - where simple lutes like the doshpuluur and two-stringed fiddles like the igil form the typical accompaniment - are fleshed out with drum loops, cello, keyboard and guitar, but they are not overwhelmed. In haunting paeans like "Mother Taiga" or "Ancestors Call" the romance of the Tuvan steppe is potently concentrated...
Penn, the co-defending Ivy champs, expected to face a difficult season after losing a strong senior class. I’m guessing, though, that it didn’t expect to be winless in its first three games. Nor could it have foreseen only getting a draw, at home, against a team that finished 1-15 last year (Here’s to you, Cornell). Midfielders Alex Takakuwa and Christian Barreiro have done well to score six goals apiece, but the defense has leaked in more goals (22) than any other team in the conference...
...We’re a dessert place,” he said. “We expect more to come after the movie...
...doctors being captured from within and turning into something else, but the patients can’t tell by looking because they still wear white coats and have stethoscopes around their necks,” says Samuels. “When you go to see the doctor, you expect a person who will basically do anything possible to help you, who will listen to you and care about you—you don’t expect a person looking into a computer screen...