Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...armed assailant, described as a white male, 19 to 20 years old, 6 feet tall with a thin build and medium length blond hair, demanded a mountain bicycle from one of the students...
...early scene in Titanic, a character scolds the captain for referring to the length of the ship by mentioning Sigmund Freud's then-new theories about preoccupations with size. Perhaps James Cameron, who wrote as well as directed, edited and produced the film, should have heeded such warnings himself before embarking on what became the most expensive film ever made...
...Vermont now employing a prevent defense and Harvard clearly desperate, Jonas was pulled from hit net with 44 seconds left. The Crimson pounded the puck deep into the Vermont zone, and an attempted centering pass from behind the net found no Harvard stick as the puck slipped down the length of the ice--and into the empty Harvard net. The last Dart-mouth player to touch the puck was goal-tender Andrew Allen, so according to the rulebook the empty-netter belonged to the freshman...
...little plagiarism mess. A New York Times reporter doing research on eunuchs (hey, they've got a lot of sections to fill now) discovered that one chapter in Chase-Riboud's Valide: A Novel of the Harem has seven instances--some as many as 600 words in length--lifted directly from a 1936 nonfiction work on harems. Chase-Riboud is continuing her $10 million lawsuit...
...hours, it all plays like the rough assembly of a 90-min. caper film--an anecdote told at epic length. Grier, foxy lady of '70s blaxploitation, is given little chance to radiate; you never even glimpse her magnificent shoulders. As for Tarantino, he is playing peekaboo with his sizable talent. Jackie Brown marks time, lots of it, between Pulp Fiction and his next great project...