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...best parts of Zoolander, though absurd, ring very true indeed. All too often, for example, fashion shows are held in dilapidated buildings or abandoned warehouses. In Zoolander, a show is held underground and the audience must enter by descending stairs under a subway grate. Also, Zoolander lives with three other male models, and in reality models do usually live together. That?s not because they?re gay - male models are no more likely to be gay than non-models - but because agencies set them up in shared flats...
...good about getting into the papers,” Bates says. “If someone gets an op-ed, great, but it’s not a substitute for writing for your colleagues or peers. The attraction of the press to the Kennedy School for sound-bites can grate...
Even so, by the age of five the classical holiday commercials depicting Santa crawling down a chimney with a sack full of toys began to grate on my developing rationality. I enumerated a number of problems with the "Santa Hypothesis" ordered by degree of disquietude created: 1) The Logistical Problem: Too many houses existed to visit them all in one night. Counter-argument: Santa might have been able to slowdown or stop time. 2) The Production Problem: The availability of raw materials at the North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what...
...smell of doughnuts tickled mama bear's nose. They were lying in a culvert, wrapped in a T shirt smothered with molasses. She was hungry. Why not tuck in? As soon as she did, a metal grate slammed shut behind her. She clawed at the cage, to no avail. Trapped in a backyard in Hamburg, N.J., all she could do was hunker down and wait...
Following them closely were the police, who formed their own parade, an assembly on foot, on horseback, in armored buses with grate windows, on motorcycles, on dirt bikes and in Police Athletic League vans. The police contingent covered four lanes of Broad Street and stretched back for six blocks...