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...think my casual approach to academics is unusual here. Reading period is, after all, designed to encourage students to goof off splendidly throughout the semester. Most non-science concentrators spend fewer than 15 hours a week in class, and Harvard doesn't exactly have an attendance policy...
Metcalf is even more startling in her other role as Oswald's ranting, self- justifying mother Marguerite. Although she created a monster, she blames everyone else; in this through-the-looking-glass world, she may have a case. Rick Snyder's Jack Ruby is a guileless goof, jitterbugging with nervous / vacuity, forever asking the strippers at his nightclub if he is effeminate. A Mob intermediary tells him he will be a hero if he kills Oswald. He is, instead, another dupe. Malkovich rightly considers this an unfinished work. It is full of intriguing moments, but it is more confusing than...
...think I really agree with the idea ofkeeping people out of a field of study because oftheir grades," he says. "You've shown you're not atotal goof-off by getting into Harvard. I don'tthink they should turn people away...
...million worth of clothing and jewelry on QVC, hawks everything from breadmakers and hair bows to books on faith healing on Can We Shop. She also brings on other celebrities to promote their wares: Dolly Parton appeared as one of Rivers' first guests to shill her own line of "goof-proof" Revlon cosmetics, for which the singer has also completed an upcoming infomercial. Rivers sees herself as the pioneer of a new genre combining selling with show biz. "This is entertainment in big letters," she says. "You're not getting close-ups of snake chains; in a few years there...
...promoted to a supervisory position -- and that would take her away from her test tubes and retorts. A civil servant usually can be fired only for the grossest incompetence or insubordination, and the process takes about a year. Many a manager grits his teeth and suffers a goof-off in silence...