Word: meetness
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...have to suffer through movies like What Happens in Vegas, which is the worst-in-breed not only for this year, but very likely in living memory. The tormented pair, Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, are not at all dislikable and their situation is not comedically hopeless. They meet in the eponymous city, he having lost his job, she having lost her fiance. Both are trying to forget these blows. But they get drunk, get married on a whim - and accidentally win three million dollars on a single turn at a slot machine. This inconveniences settlement of the divorce proceedings...
...nyient, a traditional Burmese form of comedy that often pokes fun at the country's military leaders. When those leaders reasserted their authority in a 1988 putsch, Htein Lin, along with many other student activists, fled into the jungle. While living in a rebel camp, he happened to meet an older artist, who offered him drawing lessons using recycled newspaper or sticks in the sand and described the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. "I had some images of them in my mind," Htein Lin says, laughing. "Of course, it was nothing like the reality." After murderous factional violence broke...
...committee also devoted a significant portion of the meeting to discussing how to reform the system for approving simultaneous enrollment since the majority of courses meet between...
There is a basic framework for the romantic comedy: two people meet but do not become romantically involved because of friendship, other relationships, or a career in prostitution. Then the two part ways, and during this separation one or both realize that the other is the “one.” Finally, one person makes a grand gesture to win the other’s heart, and the story ends just as sweetly as it began. Obviously there can be many variations on this framework, but essentially this is what we’ve come to expect...
Under the current regulations, students who are simultaneously enrolled must meet with professors to make up lectures that they do not attend in “hour-for-hour” instruction once the arrangement has been approved by the Admistrative Board...