Word: gilbert
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...Nobody ever called the NBA the No Fun League. The season hasn't even started, and it's already the best drama on TNT, with a Jason Kidd groping allegation, Chris Kaman cutting off his caveman hair, Stephon Marbury getting busy with an intern in a truck, and a Gilbert Arenas blog post titled "Man, I'm Shooting 4-for-24." (The best lines: "Truthfully, I'm playing like terrible trash right now. I don't want to make an excuse, but the rims are broken in every arena I'm playing in.") At the dawn of a new year...
...supposed to be played on ice. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside and 50 degrees inside. That is not a sport. Ice Basketball is not a sport." Here's Gilbert on the upcoming Wizards showdown with the Celtics: "You might as well just cheer for me, because Boston isn't winning in Boston for the season opener. I'm sorry...
...premise of DeWall's study seems too contrived to apply to the real world, consider this: While the number of people actually confronted with death at any given time is extremely small, the number who are going to die at some point is 100%, says Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard, from whose research the term "psychological immune response" springs. "We are all walking around, unlike every other animal, thinking, 'Oh, my God, eventually this all ends,'" says Gilbert. "This creates a state of existential dread. This knowledge pervades our everyday existence." The point of the current study, therefore...
...Hedges, a novelist turned screenwriter, wrote What's Eating Gilbert Grape, about a normal guy (Johnny Depp) and his wildly dependent mom and brother, and made his directing debut with the 2003 Pieces of April, about a normal gal (Katie Holmes) trying to prepare Thanksgiving dinner for her weird, disapproving family. That should explain why Hedges was attracted to Pierce Gardner's original script about a normal guy who finds love with the wrong woman while spending a weekend with his eccentric family...
...degree program between Harvard and the New England Conservatory, is serving as assistant conductor this season. He is following in the footsteps of such heavyweights as Leon Botstein—now the music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and president of Bard College—and Alan T. Gilbert ’89, the music director-elect of the New York Philharmonic.“I think I’ve always wondered just how much of what the great conductors got out of their orchestras could truly be attributed to the genius of the conductor, as opposed...