Word: guttings
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...marriage between two academics, and says he avoided watching the movie adaptation so that he and the cast could come up with an entirely original interpretation. "I’d read [the script] before and then I reread it several times when I decided to direct it. At a gut emotional level, it’s a really beautiful and really sad play, and it moved me just as profoundly each time I reread it. " Wilner says he’s especially excited about creating an interactive theatre environment. "What we’re doing that might be distinctive...
...danger is not that future generations of Harvard students will lose the ability to study American labor markets, read Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” or write essays about the Atlanta Compromise. It is that they will no longer understand, on a gut level, why they are doing those things...
...disarray, the building shows the wear of its partying years. “The floors are sticky,” Douglass says with frat-boy swagger, proudly pointing out the table where he and his friends played beer pong. “The plan is basically to gut it and redo everything,” Russo says. Due to negotiations, the building was closed this past year, having a minimal impact on students, according to both Douglass and Russo. It will reopen, according to Duane, sometime in the next school year...
...whole issue made me realize it's not a matter of one group having the truth and another not. It's matter of two different sets of beliefs. It's made me realize that belief doesn't have a lot to do with factual representation. People feel in their gut that it's true so no one can convince them in their head that it's otherwise...
After eight years on TV--the length, you'll note, of a two-term presidency--the head of the Soprano crime family is thinking about his legacy. (Fair warning: here's where the spoilers begin.) In the first new episode, Tony, still feeling the effects of having been gut-shot by dementia-addled Uncle Junior, is celebrating his 47th birthday. Later there's a reference to one of his Mob peers, who died at 47. No one connects the dots explicitly, but the parallel is not lost on Tony. "My estimate, historically, 80% of the time, [a Mob boss] ends...