Word: plateful
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...Sweet Home Alabama, Man on Fire and the Spielberg War of the Worlds. Other kid actors might be imps and scamps, but Fanning located the gravity and peril in childhood. Now she is negotiating early adolescence with the same poise. She recently survived the indie movie Hounddog, a heaping plate of refried Southern Gothic (known at Sundance as "the Dakota Fanning rape movie") in which she plays another backwoods unfortunate who says in the first scene, "I'm gonna kill my daddy one day." Bees is, by comparison, a pleasant stroll in the Carolina woods...
...Royals tied 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth, Yankee first baseman Chris Chambliss belted a game-winning home run, sparking bedlam in the Bronx. Thousands of delirious fans rushed the field, mobbing Chambliss as he ran the bases. Chambliss fled to safety before stepping on home plate, and, after police had finally cleared the diamond, emerged from the dugout to touch home only to find a fan had stolen it. "Where home plate had been imbedded, there was an empty bottle of Hiram Walker peach-flavored brandy," wrote The New York Times. "There was a bottle of blackberry...
Business School students have a lot on their plate, from case studies to recruiting events, but occasionally a troublesome turkey becomes the main course. The HBS fowl, nicknamed “Turk Turkee” by some students, has created a rift between those members of the student body who think it is a nuisance and those who think it is a harmless source of entertainment. “Although the turkey has been around since I’ve been here, I’ve never had a personal run-in with the turkey,” said Valentina...
...unveiled a proposal to simplify the federal financial aid process by shrinking the application form from 100 questions to 26 and allowing students to find out before their senior year of high school how much federal aid they would qualify for. Private universities are also stepping up to the plate, increasingly offering such user-friendly options as online aid calculators to give each student a personalized estimate. Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, says the down economy could accelerate such reforms, which could ultimately "go a long way to demystify the cost of colleges...
...bodice that it expressed itself beyond her will.An Italian costumed as a station master was looking in the same direction as Filippo. With a wink, he gestured at Felicity’s ample figure. “I’d like to stick my fork in that plate of gnocchi,” the Italian said.“Gnocchi? Ehh...absolutamente!” Ollie said, impressed at the station master’s turn of phrase.Ollie was dressed in a satin waistcoat and a hat that he believed marked him at once as a member...