Word: kernel
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...kernel of Hush!, its conscience, is delivered in one zestful 10-min. sequence. The three characters' families gather in Katsuhiro's living room for a confrontation over his relationship with Asako. The nine relatives in the room, framed together like a painting, each get to voice their concerns, prejudices and, in Asako's case, undying love (for both men). Hashiguchi's passive, distant lens is the perfect partner for their very active dysfunction. Hush! is felicitously titled. Wry and endearing, it makes the right noises but doesn't shout about...
...From the moment she became dean, she began to think about how to turn that kernel of an idea from Dean Knowles into reality,” said Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz...
...Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin with Michael Lerner, and several more), or books made up of previously published materials (Race Matters, the recent The Cornel West Reader), or compilations of interviews and conversations (1997’s Restoring Hope). And there may be a kernel of truth in President Summers’ supposed claim that since coming to Harvard, West has focused more on polemics and personal ruminations than on serious scholarship—in fact, the last book that West published through a university press was The American Evasion of Philosophy, way back...
Quandong: a small australian tree of the sandlewood fameil, whose edible fruit has a single stone containing an edible kernel...
Yamanaka, who lives in Honolulu with her son and husband, does not say which details of Sonia's struggles match her own, but does admit that "everything I write starts with some kind of kernel of truth, and then I've got to make it bigger. Life--at least my life--is pretty mundane." Her fictional world, on the other hand, is deliberately unsafe. "Part of truth telling is standing at the edge of the cliff and saying, I've got to see this, and then you jump," she says. "You don't know how you're going to land...