Word: ilk
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...There was a perfect recent example of the microscope we and those of our ilk are constantly under, straight from the worldwide leader in sports...
...Here was a forty-ish, high-end suburban finance type - 6'2", with a lacrosse player's build, handsome, funny, gregarious and kind. He loved (and still does, so keep reading) sailing but also, unlike many of his ilk, loved but one wife and one set of great kids. He had smoked, and back pain brought him to the doctor. The chest x-ray showed the oh-my-God shadow, the scans showed it everywhere. The next move is usually hospice - this one is just about impossible to stop, especially when this advanced...
...budget, no-star movie that opened nearly simultaneously in theaters, video stores and homes. And people didn't go for it in any format. Shyamalan sees a lesson there: "Bubble had $10 million worth of free publicity. Bubble had the advantage over any independent movie of its same ilk. It had so many advantages, and still it didn't perform. If Bubble did well, wouldn't that have been evidence that day-and-date works? Well, they tried it, and they failed...
...upper bound of around 50 submissions. “I’m planning on doing some edits with my screenplay and then I hope to enter their competition. You never know what can happen!” says the non-preprofessional Franklin.So for her and her ilk, is this competition the end? Is screenwriting just a phase, to be put aside for “real” work? The answer is unclear.Franklin has achieved relative success. She says that industry people, reached through contacts in her Harvard classes, have been examining her work...
...musicianship (thanks in large part to Seim's percussion), but also lends the genre some of the seriousness the "Bossies" have tried to create. The album has been released on Kill Rock Stars sister label 5RC, home to noise-rock wunderkinds Deerhoof, Hella, Xiu Xiu, and others of their ilk. Many reviews of the album have looked to the band as a bridge between the avant-garde of rock and kitschy childhood regressions, but the stylistic resonances between Deerhoof and Double Dragon are deeper than cutesiness or coincidence. Most of the current cohort of rock musicians are products...