Word: mold
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...Yasujiro Ozu festival at the HFA continues with this 1941 classic look at a once-powerful families’ decline, in the mold of The Magnificent Ambersons. After the Toda’s father suddenly dies, the children are left with no option but to sell their once opulent villa in order to support their mother. However, as money is, the proceeds are quickly spent by the children’s own families. Soon, the mother is passed around like a morbid game of hot potato from child’s house to child’s house, carrying...
...over a row of 12 white cups on a round metal table. Each contains coffee from the new harvest, toasted at 400F in a small roaster on the counter. Bolger shakes each cup and sniffs deeply. "I'm looking for defects," she says. "Underripe beans, overripe beans, sour flavors, mold. If even one bean out of 60 is flawed, you can tell...
Known for his bow ties and his conservatism, Boorstin coined the phrase “pseudo-event” to describe a situation that was staged to get news coverage and mold the public’s perception. He offered the Nixon-Kennedy television debates as his prime example of a staged historical event...
...coming years, five immensely important planning committees will mold the future of Harvard. It should have been obvious from the outset that students should be included on the undergraduate life task force. Now, administrators can expand the important and necessary role for students in this watershed planning stage by inviting students to hold seats on the other committees as well...
...rats in the walls,? he has pearly psychopath written all over him. Especially his hands, which poke out of the shadows into harsh light. ?How interesting a pair of hands can be,? Marlow muses, as Cliff sits petrified. ?They can trick a melody out of a keyboard. They can mold beauty out of a piece of common clay... Yet the same pair of hands can do terrible evil. They can destroy, torture, even kill.? He glares at Cliff and takes off his scarf...