Word: jimming
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...young Steve--the defining epiphany of his youth--was Disneyland, which opened near his family's home in 1955. In the book, Martin describes the park's kitsch splendor with the rapture of Marco Polo on first seeing China. There, he quickly located two mentors: Jim Barlow, performing sleight of hand at Merlin's Magic Shop, and at the Golden Horseshoe Revue, Wally Boag, a comic who made funny balloon animals. From them came the raw material for Martin...
...going and we’d like you to come,’” he said.Along with his family, Reitan attended a Washington, D.C. demonstration for gay rights. Karslake’s cameras went along for the protest, which featured the Reitans reading an open letter to Jim Dobson, founder of evangelical group Focus on the Family. True to form, the family got arrested while trying to deliver the letter to Dobson.Reitan saw the movie together with Gomes, who is also his thesis advisor. Gomes did not remember filming the scenes Karslake used in the film...
Early applicants from the Boston Latin School in Cambridge, however, did not increase significantly. Last year, 27 out of 79 of its applicants to Harvard were early action applicants. According to the school’s director of guidance and support services, Jim Montague, the number of early applicants to Yale increased from two to four this year. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...rising stars to provide the offensive output needed to compete in the Ivy League. This season, juniors Drew Housman and Evan Harris will be counted on for an inside-outside presence. Their emergence is even more crucial with the graduation in last year’s leading scorer, Jim Goffredo ’07, and center Brian Cusworth ’06-’07, whose eligibility expired midway through last season. Housman has already proven his scoring and overall playmaking ability, ranking in the top 10 in the Ancient Eight in points, field-goal percentage, and assists last...
...Americans as uncivilized, reducing them to a ridiculous archetype. His performance also featured a “traditional” dance that was actually exaggerated for the crowd’s benefit. When Native American ways are embellished or altered to entertain the masses, the descriptor “Jim Crow” leaps to mind sooner than “honor...