Word: gents
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...those of you who are dying of curiosity, FlyBy is here to help. As the Yale Herald once wrote in 2003, "You may not know his face, but he has one of the most famous names on campus." We've dug up a dusty portrait of the handsome gent after the jump...
...floppy-haired 50-year-old looks every inch the country gent as TIME sets out to photograph him against the picture-pretty backdrop of Welshpool, a market town near his home in rural Wales. Hardscrabble neighborhoods are the BNP's core recruiting grounds, but Griffin also finds a hero's welcome in this green and pleasant land. "Good on you, mate!" bellows an admirer, craning dangerously from a top-floor window as an old man sprints over to glad-hand his idol and motorists honk their appreciation from passing cars. (Read "European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel...
...risks in a traditional genre; mean and old are words rarely attached to the main character in an animated feature. But Docter, 40, who'd done the 2001 Monsters, Inc., and his co-director and co-writer Bob Peterson didn't want just to have fun with the elderly gent. They would send him and the audience on a journey in two new directions: penetratingly inward and exaltedly...
...took power. This is a pure art film, daunting and demanding, spare and unsparing, making no concession to the prevailing popular taste - except, perhaps, film-festival taste. It was also, as we two Cannes veterans attest, the finest work in the competition. Writer-director Michael Haneke, a personally austere gent who has won prizes here before, with The Piano Teacher (starring Huppert) and Caché, was finally forced to crack a smile as he accepted the award...
...from my puzzle which was published in The New York Times in 2007. (Looks over her puzzle, which she has just had signed by Will Shortz). The clue is “Beachgoer wearing bug spray” and the answer is “Off on a tan gent.” The theme was splitting up words unexpectedly.RR: That’s a good one. So, what was it like to meet Will Shortz today?ER: Oh golly! So nice to meet him. Golly, he’s God!Douglas I. Goodman ’97, Winner...