Word: impressing
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...second day of our acquaintance, Crowe pulled some strings and arranged for us to chat on the stage of Sydney's famed Opera House. It was a grand and generous gesture--a movie-star gesture--but like the boat and kayak it seemed designed to simultaneously impress, overwhelm and create some distance. Still, Crowe was interested in discussing how the game of celebrity hide-and-seek is played by others. Staring at the acoustical tiles he asked me, "Do you ever ask, when you're doing interviews with musicians, the what-are-your-influences question?" I do. "Because...
...human raised at the North Pole who is horrified to find out he's not an elf. He goes to Manhattan ostensibly to meet his biological father but really to fulfill the point of the movie: getting himself overly excited about everything else he finds there. He tries to impress a date by taking her to a diner that advertises the WORLD'S BEST CUP OF COFFEE, waves back at people hailing taxis and receives each advertising flyer as if it were a gift. And, since it's a Christmas movie, he brings his dad's broken family together...
...tucked into a corner separate from the restaurant, has a wine-cellar feel and a clientele composed of both regulars and Boston-bar explorers. Bartender Brian Paccini said that the locals abound during the week. However, “During the weekend, those that want to impress come check Aquitane...
...Some people really do want to be investment bankers, and others don’t. This conflict is certainly not limited to those with finance-driven aspirations however. It’s not about investment banking. It is about the possibility that with all our running around trying to impress everyone all the time, it becomes hard to know what we really want, and who the person is that really wants it. The second company may not be a better place for everyone, but I think it was for me, and the only reason I can say that is because...
...grading also rewarded the blandest essays. I gave a 5 to a kid who had written a funny, subtle first-person account of a friend who had slacked off his studies and begun dressing "like a pimp" in order to impress the cool kids. The other graders gave the essay 2s and 3s; there was one 4. (Our scores didn't count for anything. On a real test, the raw 1 to 6 score will be combined with the raw score from the multiple-choice grammar segment and translated into an overall writing score on the traditional...