Word: garner
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...everyone. With the new school year barely a week old, Summers has acted again in what is now his signature style: commenting publicly on a taboo subject and inciting debate both on campus and across the country. Good for him. And in a move that is less likely to garner national headlines but may be just as important for Harvard undergraduates, Summers last weekend broke with recent presidential tradition to host an event solely intended to give students a few hours of enjoyable recreation...
...secondary beneficiaries are the spectators. Midweek afternoon games are extremely difficult for students and local parents to attend. The team draws as many as three hundred fans for a weekend game, but struggles to garner three dozen on a typical weekday afternoon. The midweek night games are likely to provide fewer conflicts for spectators, which means greater attendance and a more electric atmosphere for the players on the field...
...learn about diseases through the faces of those who are stricken. Famous faces garner the most attention, obviously. When we think of Alzheimer's, my father's face comes to mind. Or Iris Murdoch's. And now Heston's. When Parkinson's is mentioned, we picture Michael J. Fox or Muhammad...
...These are all reasons to be happy - and there were plenty more. Kiefer Sutherland ("24") and Jennifer Garner ("Alias") got deserved nominations for showing us that acting does make a difference, even in action thrillers. (If you ever read a "24" script and then watch what Kiefer's stone-cold-sumbitch performance does for its workmanlike thriller dialogue - "Trust me on this one, Nina!" etc. - you will be ready to give him not just an Emmy but a Nobel...
...Hall and Frances Conroy; the two of them take the kind of repressed characters that creator Alan Ball made into cartoons in "American Beauty" and give them surprise and whimsy and nuance. A supporting-actor slot went to another master of complex repression, "Alias'" Victor Garber, who as Jennifer Garner's enigmatic spy dad communicates more emotion in one tensed frown than Martin Sheen in an entire season of Oval Office curtain-chewing...