Word: headlong
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...hard to decide whether self-awareness can redeem Shyamalan’s lack of originality; after all, as mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote, all epics follow the same progression along their “Hero’s Journey.” But only diving headlong into this bedtime story can save you from a feeling...
...same--and with good reason--America's business lite was wary of Roosevelt from the start. He turned out to be the first President to aggressively use the powers of government to set rules for the headlong U.S. economy and the men he called "malefactors of great wealth." When President William McKinley chose T.R. as his running mate in 1900, Ohio Senator Mark Hanna, the business-friendly G.O.P. power broker who had engineered McKinley's rise, was horrified. "Don't any of you realize," Hanna raged at fellow Republicans, "there's only one life between this madman...
...well captured by Morton’s patronizing airs.Alison H. Rich ’09 also proves herself to be a strong first-year actress as Martirio, a deeply observant and physically handicapped sister whose sabotaged love affair leads her to attempt to curtail Adela’s headlong impulses; her cutting remarks bring a sarcastic humor to the show. And the maid Ellen C. Quigley ’07, who serves both as an additional source of comic relief and as a second mother figure, adds a much-needed warmth to the discontented themes of the play.HRDC acting...
...DEAD END With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. Acts...
From the moment you set foot in the boomtowns of the Rio Grande Valley, you sense you are watching a gold rush, headlong and free spirited and corrupt and ingenious. Stand on a corner some morning in Laredo, Texas, and watch the first of 8,000 trucks a day hauling the global economy north and south, 18-wheelers full of bulldozer claws and baby cribs, all passing through a town that once didn't bother to pave the streets. Now it can't pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager...