Word: pips
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After a while, though, Rocky gets bored, and implores Pip to send him to “the Other Place.” Pip cackles in return, “This is the Other Place...
...possible to have too much of a good thing? One episode of the chilling television series The Twilight Zone tells the story of Rocky Valentine, a gangster who is shot to death and awakens to find a friendly man named Pip standing over him, explaining that he is Rocky’s guide and will give him anything he wishes. Just like that, Rocky has all the money he wants, never loses at pool, and gets every girl he desires...
...receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who previously rejected Tim's last-minute confession of love for fear of upsetting her life plans, has moved with her lunkish fianc to Florida. (The drudgery of routine, and the terror of changing it, is the show's constant theme.) Meanwhile, the power-hungry pip-squeak Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) is now office manager, having replaced the boorish David Brent (writer-producer Ricky Gervais). David complains that his life was ruined by the documentary--a nice touch, since The Office immeasurably changed Gervais' life as well--bitterly claiming that he was the victim of bad editing...
...restaurants; crowds of Aussies with tell-tale stripes of sunblock saunter around the dusty futuristic vastness of the Olympic complex. Everyone here points out that Melbourne's Greek population makes it the third biggest Hellenic city after Athens and Thessaloniki; it seems possible that this week Athens could just pip Brisbane in the Aussie population rankings. Nowhere is more Australian than the aquatic center this first Monday of competition. From the top of the stand the view stretches back across the city, white against the dull brown hills. The sun is low under threatening black clouds furled by a wind...
...lightly fictionalized account of his disgrace and its aftermath with a central character named Stephen Glass. You might expect a legendary liar to have a gift for invention. "I am compulsively imaginative," the "fictional" Glass assures us. But you'd never know it from this wan novel about a pip-squeak Raskolnikov who wants everybody to love...