Word: magnolia
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...were being, well, hopeful! Yet Sarah's performance at the Games during the figure-skating long program [WINTER OLYMPICS, March 4] managed to lift the tarnish from the earlier ice-skating controversies--and showed (for once, at least) that the best ice skater earns the gold. SHANNIN SCHROEDER Magnolia...
...Davis, a Magnolia, Miss. native, began higher education at Mississippi State University before going on to receive a doctorate at MIT and a post-doctoral degree at Cal Tech. His first teaching job was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he spent 15 years. Davis was then recruited for an administrative position in biochemistry at Harvard...
...happens when that reality is shifted to someone else’s reality? That is precisely the question that Focus, directed by Neal Slavin and based upon the novel by Arthur Miller, attempts to address. The story focuses on Lawrence Newman, a circumstantial bigot played by William H. Macy (Magnolia, Psycho) who purchases a new pair of glasses which make him look like a Jew to the outside world. All sorts of unsavory consequences ensue. Newman gets demoted at work, ironically just after he turns away Gertrude Hart (Laura Dern), a woman he perceives was to have...
When Layla Cable finally coaxed the Japanese magnolia on the border of her property to grow about ten years ago, she discovered that she was terribly allergic to the flowers...
...question of what to do with the magnolia became a sort of running joke between the neighbors, who were drawn together over the years by the proximity of the quirky, multi-colored family houses lining their Cambridge neighborhood halfway between Harvard and Porter Square...