Word: midpoints
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...same career point that Puzo was when he wrote the novel in 1969. There may not be too many writers eager to confess to that. Puzo said he wrote the story of the Corleone family as a way to make some money when he was broke at the midpoint of his career. Random House hopes the new book will be turned into a movie like the memorable first Godfather film, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Marlon Brando. Proposals for possible story lines are due on Nov. 4, and Karp and the Puzo estate will choose...
...Crimson continued its winning streak by playing No. 19 UC-Davis. Down 5-3 at the midpoint, the team shut down Davis in the second half and came back...
...intelligence failures. Were the warnings a ploy to unite the nation behind the White House? If not, then where was the anxiety coming from? And if the risks had truly escalated, why was the country still bathing in the glow of a "yellow" security alert--the midpoint of the five-level system established in March...
...midpoint the novel moves forward five years to the ragged British retreat from Dunkirk, in which Robbie is a weary infantryman, then to London, where Briony, now a nurse trainee, is struggling to find some remedy for the damage she has done. Her solution is not plain until the surprising final pages, when you grasp that if storytelling can be an occasion for sin, it can also be an act of contrition. It's McEwan's subtle game to show fiction working its worst kind of curse, then leading us unawares to give it our blessing...
...service, entitled “An Afternoon of Sermon and Song,” celebrated the midpoint of Black History Month. Dedicated to celebrating black history and culture, the month stems from “Negro History Week,” created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson ’12. Woodson was the second black to receive a doctorate from Harvard...