Word: nails
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...make once he's done with what he calls "this theatrical thing" or "this theatrical immersion." That's a reference to his 25-year career as a commercial filmmaker, which he makes sound as if it were merely a phase he's going through, like a teenage girl shoplifting nail polish. Some phase: after writing and directing Star Wars, which was his third feature and one he has described as unusually draining to make, Lucas stepped back to take an executive producer's role--albeit an unusually hands-on one--for Star Wars' almost as successful sequels...
...Harvard men also finished with a 5-4 nail-biting win, but it did not enjoy any of the drama of Cumming's victory. Unlike the women, it was the reliable top Crimson men who helped secure a victory...
...teenager in 1936 Eva makes her first conquest, the troubadour Agustin Magaldi (Jimmy Nail), whom she accompanies to Buenos Aires, a glittering Hollywood of hope for Eva. Her gift for attracting men of position leads her to Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce), a junta colonel who becomes Argentina's President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young...
Late in the second period, the final nail in the coffin was driven deep by Higdon, collecting his third point of the day (he captured the assist on the first Harvard goal, winning the face...
...school student Lee said of his interview: "We engaged in the Socratic method of questioning and answering. They take a particular point and try to nail...