Word: guts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...locked in, trial lawyers will have fallen in love with a Democrat, just as oilmen will find true romance with a Republican. But at this early stage, the contest for the support of influential fund raisers and large donors is also a personal one, with allegiances, grudges and gut feelings determining the fate of millions of dollars and eventually shaping the nomination field...
Harvard’s recent two-loss week, which included the gut-wrenching triple-overtime defeat against BC in the Beanpot’s opening round last Tuesday and an upset at Colgate, did not affect the squad in the national rankings, as the Crimson remained perched at sixth in the new poll released Monday...
...Vesuvian lava flow down your front. With every passing fraction of a second, the pizza loses a bit of its airy perfection. The other advantage of eating it right there by the oven is that you avoid having to share it with anyone back at the table. Unlike the gut-busting, fully loaded fast-food pizzas, these are light as soufflés. As terrific as Ernesto's thin-crust pizza is, his greatest achievement may be his monumental pizza fritta, a deep-fried crescent of folded pizza dough stuffed with ricotta, like a calzone for angels. Suffice...
...promise, my last Feiffer quote: "Eisner's line had weight. Clothing sat on his characters heavily; when they bent an arm, deep folds sprang into action everywhere. When one Eisner character slugged another, a real fist hit real flesh. Violence was not externalized plot exercise; it was the gut of his style. Massive and indigestible, it curdled, lava-like, from the page." As does Feiffer's prose...
...film works in spurts: a scene that sputters with bombast will be followed by some wrenching fire storm of death in combat. But nowadays, when directors aim for the predictably cute or gross, these spurts are tonic. They prove that someone out there, working from the mind and gut, is willing to put both aggressively onscreen. So Platoon is different. It matters...