Word: length
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...Barley won the Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes film festival and despite its length (over two hours) and some structural problems, it is an absorbing, worthwhile and often passionate movie. Yes, it has a certain medicinal virtue; it is not easy to take. But it also has extraordinary dramatic power and because Loach is an honest and honorable craftsman, it often betrays his own sympathies...
...only 34 years old at the time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for Gödel, Escher, Bach, and it went on to become a cult classic that influenced a generation of thinkers. Since then Hofstadter has published on numerous subjects, but he never went back at length to the themes of his first book...
...ball around [the goalie],” Martin said. “We’ve got to throw in a couple more fakes to get the goalie to move.” Going into the game, the Crimson hoped to control the ball on offense and maximize length of possession, and it worked in the opening minutes. With 11 minutes elapsed in the first half, junior Natalie Curtis scored Harvard’s first goal to tie the score at 1. But, as was the case with its previous two losses, Harvard began to fade as halftime approached. Just...
...knew her said, "God, you look like your mother." And some people who knew her said, "no, you don't." It's very hard. My brother thinks I do. There is one photograph in particular where she is looking straight at the camera and she's got shoulder-length hair and a fringe. She's looking very earnest. I dye my hair blonde and I always tie it back, and I'm older also. I'm 16 years older than she was when she died. I think I'm beginning to resemble my American grandmother, her mother...
...underneath. This trend is perhaps understandable. As feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949, “The individual’s specific transcendence takes concrete form in the penis and it is a source of pride…It is easy to see, then, that the length of the penis, the force of the urinary jet, the strength of erection and ejaculation become for him the measure of his own worth.” Or maybe certain Houses’ predilection stems from the notion that any object whose length exceeds its breadth automatically conjures up the image...