Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need of a good laugh, listen in on some of the arguments between Trekkers and Lucasites. I've heard everything from "the Enterprise can kick the crap out of those dinky Star Destroyers" to "Worf isn't half the man Chewbacca is." Pretty silly stuff, but again, fans have to fight for the honor of their faves...
Yesterday, I did go to Lamont. I thought that might convince me that I should start studying. I ended up looking at my laptop for an hour and half and thinking about everything but studying--from my friends that are graduating, to House formals, to Wednesday's episode of "Dawson's Creek." The sun streaming through the windows was definitely over-powering the neat study schedule I had planned and carefully pencilled into my planner...
...actually a relatively short time span from book to movie. I think it was about three and a half years ago that I gave the book to the producers and they gave it MTV. MTV financed the development, and they brought director Alexander Payne on board. It was November of 1995 when it started and they were inproduction by November...
...Pump" and "A Lonely Coast," the litaneous recurrence of tragedy does become uninteresting: one begins, at times, to wish for a hint of lives that are not being slowly ground down. But these are remarkably few weak points in a collection of 11 stories: and in stories like "The Half-Skinned Steer," "The Mud Below," and, most strikingly, "Brokeback Mountain," Proulx reasserts herself with a force that has grown and become refined since the fine Heartsongs collection. She has developed herself as a chronicler of memory, and her protagonists in these stories are more psychologically compelling than even the strongest...
...Pump" and "A Lonely Coast," the litaneous recurrence of tragedy does become uninteresting: one begins, at times, to wish for a hint of lives that are not being slowly ground down. But these are remarkably few weak points in a collection of 11 stories: and in stories like "The Half-Skinned Steer," "The Mud Below," and, most strikingly, "Brokeback Mountain," Proulx reasserts herself with a force that has grown and become refined since the fine Heartsongs collection. She has developed herself as a chronicler of memory, and her protagonists in these stories are more psychologically compelling than even the strongest...