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...ACID representatives said the agreement reflects the priorities shown in a community-wide survey conducted last year. They also said there had been many opportunities for public comment, including monthly neighborhood forums and two small-group meetings held last week to explain the finer points of the proposed agreement...
Luckily, the entire movie isn’t given over to the finer points of seafaring. The most enjoyable moments are the quietest, particularly the scenes in which Aubrey and Maturin play classical music together in the Captain’s cabin. After scenes of wartime devastation, these scenes are beautiful. Scenes like these are often just a device, intended to demonstrate the hero’s more complex nature: he is more than a brute, the screenwriters hope to demonstrate. In this case, however, Crowe handles these scenes skillfully enough that they don’t seem contrived; Aubrey...
...trial by vocabulary for shore-hugging readers ("and then these futtock-plates at the rim here hold the dead-eyes for the topmast shrouds"). The books are action-adventures, true, but also peerless novels of 19th century manners, detailing the mores of Regency England while instructing in the finer points of how to cannonade a French corsair or master seas that can body slam mere frigates into splinters...
...sauna (“Not ‘saw-na!’ There’s no such thing as a ‘saw-na.’ It’s ‘sow-ow-na!”); another, of Uruguayan descent, explained the finer points of gender roles in Uruguay, as well as why she found bad Uruguay-related puns so unfunny; a third taught us Greek invectives. Neither was cultural identification a phenomenon limited to my room; at the activities fair held for first-years, representatives for organizations like the Hellenic Society gave...
...simple: teach them the finer points of tackling. For lack of a better plan, I thought back to 1996 and one of the key lessons I learned as a freshman football player at Garber High School in Essexville, Mich...