Word: ian
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...fretting that his brother act is close to breakup, runs away from home and gets menaced by an eagle at the zoo. There's also a musical-talent sing-off that pits the little guys against a female trio of chipmunks, the Chipettes, laboring under the management of evil Ian Hawke (David Cross), the villain from the first movie...
...awards season of 1998-99, it's hard not to feel some chagrin. That was the year Roberto Benigni did his clown's leap to the stage to pick up his Best Actor Oscar, but in retrospect, the issue isn't that Benigni beat out Nick Nolte, Edward Norton, Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks for the award; it's that Jeff Bridges wasn't even nominated. His deft, hilarious, thrillingly perfect performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a.k.a. the Dude, in the Coen brothers' genius film The Big Lebowski should have been showered with prizes. Instead, the only official honor Bridges...
Last week, another nation’s survival was threatened by the existence of the U.S. Senate. Arguing for a stronger climate-change treaty that would save his nation from going underwater, Ian Fry, Tuvalu’s representative to the climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen, placed the blame squarely at the Senate’s feet. “It is an irony of the modern world that the fate of the world is being determined by some senators in the U.S. Congress,” Fry lamented...
Apart from Burt, what do so many undergraduates gain from this ostensibly niche subject? For some, it’s the tantalizing possibility of being able to think outside the literary box and extrapolate from the page to society at large. Ian J. Storey ’10, a student in the course and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, says, “Because SF takes place in unusual worlds where new things are possible, societies or situations can be set up to ask fascinating ‘what if’ questions...
...live in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. - a town so small, there weren't enough people to stop someone from naming it Hoosick Falls. Cassandra's brother Brian is very into video games and anime and is definitely going to be our choice for guardian once Laszlo turns 15. Her brother Ian and his wife Tricia just had a son exactly Laszlo's age, but they also live in a tiny, rural town. And they're vegan. While there's nothing wrong with being vegan, it means they don't eat meat. And talk about being vegan a lot. Though I think...