Word: nameless
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lovely proceeds from a miscalculated device. A nameless shade (Jonathan Pryce) arrives to conduct the aged, crippled Porter (Kevin Kline) out of this world into the next. Before they depart, they naturally pause to contemplate Porter's 73 years of existence. His homosexuality is not elided. His tense and enigmatic marriage to Linda Lee Thomas (Ashley Judd) is inconclusively examined. So is the riding accident that crushed both his legs and put him in constant, searing pain and (this is not mentioned) led to drug addiction for the last quarter-century of his life...
...They should call it Stalker.com,” the faculty member says of the site which reported the nameless rumor...
...learnt an invaluable lesson: If you drag your heels, it’s not only going to take you a long time to get to the biology labs. It’s also going to be difficult to get much out of the course. This class, which shall remain nameless to protect the innocent, involved a lot of naming different kinds of vertebrates, drawing different kinds of plants, and measuring water levels at various points. All this was fairly straightforward, but then the class collectively experienced a collision of tectonic plates. To explain: Geological movements portrayed in ambiguous pictorial form...
...would. He’s the kind of guy that spends his Saturday afternoons shopping downtown, dropping hundreds of dollars on designer jeans, shoes, belts and whatever other must-have accessories for the self-proclaimed metrosexual he can find. And what is most surprising is that this nameless friend—a football player for University of Maryland—doesn’t really fit the stereotype of someone particularly “fashion-conscious.” Yet, he’s still been sucked in by the trend...
...know these types. But what I realized was more astonishing about section-centric conversations, rather than the inevitable appearance of these nameless prototypical characters, is the number of real-life acquaintances that seem to pop up again and again. Section is, after all, a random conglomerate of students culled from different places who share only a free time slot on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. in common, and yet it isn’t just the stereotypes that remain a constant from one person’s section rollcall to the next. Sure, I don’t really know that...