Word: high-strung
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These days, movie superheroes come in two models: the burly and the boyish. Hugh Jackman in "X-Men" is the butch type, slathered in testosterone, ready to pick a fight with the world. Tobey Maguire in "Spider-Man" is the fretful schoolboy, high-strung as a bluegrass fiddle, aching for the hormones to kick...
...kind of motel so ancient and creaky that one suspects Norman Bates might leap out from behind any of its murky corners. A brutal storm has flooded the single road that leads away from the motel, so various marooned travelers start checking in one by one. They include a high-strung actress (Rebecca De Mornay) and her resourceful limo driver (John Cusack), a short-fused policeman (Ray Liotta) escorting a murderous prisoner (Jake Busey) and a high-priced hooker escaping Las Vegas to tend to an orange grove in Florida (Amanda Peet...
...kind of motel so ancient and creaky that one suspects Norman Bates might leap out from behind any of its murky corners. A brutal storm has flooded the single road that leads away from the motel, so various marooned travelers start checking in one by one. They include a high-strung actress (Rebecca De Mornay) and her resourceful limo driver (John Cusack), a short-fused policeman (Ray Liotta) escorting a murderous prisoner (Jake Busey) and a high-priced hooker escaping Las Vegas to tend to an orange grove in Florida (Amanda Peet...
...paper. We would never run [those headlines] in the Crimson—ever, ever, ever.” Fenster’s familiarity with FM on this point is a bit suspect. The column is a welcome creative outlet for him, especially after the past few years of the high-strung Crimson culture. “It’s more like a fun project for me than a sort of serious column. I tended to get a little self-indulgent when I wrote my columns [at Harvard]. It’s better to get away from Harvard and write...
...after the pairs final, a French judge admitted she had been pressured to favor the Russians' klutzy turn over the Canadians' sublime skate. The ensuing uproar, which resulted in the awarding of gold medals to both teams, cast a pall on the International Skating Union and the high-strung community of ice divas. But until now, who imagined...