Word: neill
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Jacqueline O’Neill, a former staff director in the president’s office and the current communications and external relations director for the Allston Initiative, will become the first female marshal of the University when she assumes the part-time position...
...Neill said Summers offered her the position at a meeting three weeks...
...like a blind man in a room full of deaf people." Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary, describing in his new book the lack of give-and-take in President George W. Bush's Cabinet meetings...
...pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate of jolly old England...
...premise this complex and meta could easily turn into high-concept mush, but the many characters play off one another so deftly that instead of one obscuring the other, they illuminate the strange subtexts they have in common. At one point Moore and O'Neill bring in the mad scientist Dr. Moreau (as in The Island of--yet another bad movie), and the grotesque talking animals Moreau breeds become a sinister take on Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows and the talking rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, as well as--this is virtuosity in action, folks--the real...