Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...push someone and make them do their best; she calls forth just a little more than the person thought he had in them." Some of the students survey these abilities from a different perspective. "There are some people who spend their time in Widener trying to hide from her," one of them confided, "they stick their noses around every corner first to see if she's coming." Not that they don't like and admire her, but "she has this tendency to impose deadlines on you every time you see her. I used to prepare for her seminar three days...
...jowls hanging off a twisted mouth, and a voice cracked from years of command, is Don Corleone. Brando plays the character totally from within, making him physically expressive and, as a result, extraordinarily complex. He walks as if his shoulder blades were pinned back behind him (which can't hide an old man's paunch in front). But the sensibility beneath the authority is surprisingly agile; the Don can suddenly break into mimicry, or dance a wedding turn with his daughter with a slight protective bent that catches sentiment in movement. Brando puts so much substance into his relatively...
...past two years Rosenberger says that he has taken an interest in studying and that his grades have improved. "I used to take all guts," he said. "Now I'm taking hard courses and doing a lot better. I'm not really that stupid, although I hide it pretty well...
...breaking his own world record of 8 ft. 2 in. Joule -all 5 ft. 5 in. of him-performed just as brilliantly, though it must be remembered that aqraorak is not his forte. Joule is the world champion in nalukataak, in which contestants bounce on a walrus hide held fireman-style by two dozen assistants. Joule bounced to within inches of the ceiling in the town's gymnasium but later confessed that he does not really know what determines a winner in his chosen sport. "I think it has something to do with height and form," he said...
...guest pulls off a couple of the smoothest on-stage poisonings I've ever not witnessed. While Christie may rub our noses in the paradoxes and devious clues she invents, she's a masterbuilder of tension and an incorrigibly clever murderess--which even her hum-drum sentimentality can't hide...