Word: neatness
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...Dartmouth fans like to tell you, over and over, how Hanover has the highest consumption figures for Anheuser-Busch products in the country, and how neat the bonfire they hold at the end of their freshman week is, and how it really is every bit as good a school as Harvard. And they are fond of throwing beer bottles...
...shoulder, searching for key words to pop out, since their ability to read English is limited. A copy of Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, with its uncompromising portrait of Lenin, was flipped through without incident, but a yellow legal pad on which I had written "KGB -neat shoes"-a reference to being able to spot a secret-service agent by his spruced-up footwear-caused a considerable stir. The officials studied the pad for five minutes...
...neat play but Van der Elst leaped high in the air. Chinalgia smiled. The Sounders shook their heads and clenched their fists...
...film ends. Annaud and Dawaere, lestetes-unis, have great fun showing us the delicate power of restraint, even extending their satire to religion. But they never manage to draw us into their world. It ultimately remains much like the tight-knit, snobbish French villages they try to ridicule: neat, petty, and deluded by a mistaken sense of self-importance...
...these people, all of whom are about as articulate as the mechanical beast, are finally worked out in a riding contest - a sit-out instead of a Shootout - between Bud and Wes and in an even more melodramatic coda. This provides added opportunities for heroics and also a neat enough resolution. It is, however, a most improbable ending...