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...Year is 1932, and Diego, 17, a Mexican orphan, has been adopted by a gang of Coney Island, N.Y., con artists. He has been rechristened Ondoo by his mentors and trained to incant Hindu mumbo jumbo during the séances they stage to bilk millionaires on Long Island's Gold Coast. But their scams turn sour when a young girl goes missing, leaving a trail that leads to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the dark chapter of its history that today's gene scientists don't like to talk about. Ford, who teaches literature at a New Jersey community college...
Tringali spruced up the seniors’ first draft with some parliamentary mumbo-jumbo about furthering Currier HoCo’s fundraising efforts, but the heart of the bill shone through: “Whereas Evan R. Johnson (Dunster ’06) has repeatedly failed to satisfy women of all sizes, ethnicities, ages, races, religions and sexual preferences...
...pleasantly low-key; clips spliced out of skateboarding home videos, wide shots of grungy urban blocks, and throughout it all, Lupe himself dipping about amicably. Half the pleasure is in seeing the decidedly gawky Fiasco jerking around in front of the camera. Swimming in an oversized hoodie, with a jumbo pair of glasses perched on his nose, he bobs his thin neck to the jazzy beat with a positively adorable sincerity. The cycle gets predictable quickly though—a lone skater rolling past a sinister apartment block, a kick-flip down some stairs, then more head-bobbing. Nevertheless, Fiasco...
Instead of trying to innovate the thriller genre, Brown just took the trusty template and filled in the blanks, as if completing a jumbo-sized Mad Libs. Scientist ______ (boring Anglo-Saxon name) and the beautiful intelligence analyst ______ (another name) team together to battle the conspiracy of the ______ (sinister government agency). Writing an Expos paper should be so easy...
...Boeing bets its fortunes on the 747 jumbo jet, which for the first time makes intercontinental air travel accessible to a mass market...