Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns, tanks, limp bodies, bloodshed and explosions--all of which, though accurately and emotionally depicted, do not constitute a war movie. Instead, they constitute a war. Private Ryan is, for the most part, missing the movie which should come along with the battles...
...length of time it took for the Crimson to notch the goal emphasized what Harvard's main concern has become: finishing on good chances...
...length of Mark McGwire's 62 home runs, when added together, equals 26,413 ft. At this rate, how many would he have to hit to attain a length greater than the height of Mount Everest...
...those of you impatient with the length of commuter shuttle flights from Boston to New York, you might want to reconsider. A group of Harvard students will be hitting the road to New York--on bicycles...
...alter ego, Tony Clifton. Odd as this is, it's nothing on Kaufman. Apparently, when Kaufman was in character as the lizardly Clifton, he would eat food like red meat that the comic, who was a vegetarian, wouldn't normally touch. After such binges, Kaufman would occasionally eat a length of cheesecloth to purge himself. (It's a yoga thing, evidently.) According to USA Today, Carrey was explaining this to new buddy Elton John, who was so amused he sent the comedian some cheese, red wine and packets of cheesecloth. No word yet on whether Carrey partook...