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...Seidel is not afraid to get into the nitty gritty??he’s willing to take on the neighborhood nuisance of leaf blowers, for example, and has criticized the vote that allocated staffers to city council members...
...system that currently involves unwieldy coordination between professors, the libraries, and the Coop. But yesterday’s legislation marked “the culmination” of the UC’s focus on lowering book prices and signaled a turn towards the “nitty-gritty?? aspects of acting on that focus, according to Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09. The relevant proposal spanned seven of the UC’s 10-page meeting agenda, boasted two appendices, and included two schematics detailing the present and future configurations...
...He’s ready to bankrupt himself to ensure his son’s safety. Then, learns that his son is actually safe and that it’s his chauffeur’s child who is at risk. Does he pay the ransom?The film is gritty??as New York Times critic A. O. Scott ’88 put it in a review, “It’s full of gamey details and a kind of sleazy anxious sweaty mood.”Mifune’s performance perfectly balances traditional Japanese restraint...
Perhaps Columbia’s low self-estimation in the case of Riding in Cars With Boys is well-founded. The story is real and gritty??what could, given the right turns of phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps too pedestrian for the film’s slate. Unless director Penny Marshal pulls out all cinematographic stops and carries the film on aesthetic sails alone, the prognosis for Riding in Cars looks grim. At the very least, their pusillanimous, even deceitful, refusal to submit to critical treatment will...
...prepare, Gusmorino has been following the same program as student Commencement speakers.Yesterday afternoon, he read his latest draft to Hunt. He has also been working on his delivery with Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who advised him on intonation and gave other “nitty-gritty?? oratorical suggestions, as well as with a voice coach at the American Repertory Theater...
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