Word: pips
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Otto F. Coontz, assistant to the Adams senior tutor, offered the use of his dog Pip to scare the mice back into their holes just long enough for students to cover the entrance points...
...absolutely true that Osama bin Laden is a moral pip-squeak. But without this one individual, Sept. 11 would have been just another day and the admirable Mayor Giuliani would not have had the opportunity to remove the tarnish from his image. And without bin Laden, Americans would still be questioning the legitimacy of the Bush presidency. JONATHAN SIMONS Woodland Hills, Calif...
Swank seems a little lost among them. There's something slightly mousy in her presence; she seems more a victim than a mastermind, a character actress trying to command a star part. Her cohorts pip-pip merrily through the historical flummery, letting their accents do their acting for them. Swank doesn't quite get the joke. Charles Shyer, the director, does. He understands that we're mostly there for the drollery and the decolletage. Every movie season requires a handsomely appointed irrelevance, and his movie fills that need admirably...