Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unfortunately, Sun decides to turn what could have been a pleasant love story into a perplexing meditation on identity, reality and commuting. At times Zhou Yu's Train feels like a parody of an art film, complete with slow-motion shots of a melancholy Gong Li. Not even the charming presence of Sun Hong-Lei as a love-struck veterinarian who tries to persuade Zhou to dismount her iron horse can save the film's stalled second act. It's good to have Gong Li back, but here's hoping her next director stays on track. Anyone know what Zhang...
...Harvard-Yale if its season has warranted it. They want basketball to make the NCAAs and win longer than anyone expected them to, just as Princeton did in 1998, and when they do, they don’t want to treat it as a marathon runner’s pleasant surprise. They want to do it again, top it. If players and coaches and the athletic department didn’t—if they were truly content to settle for mediocrity—they’d be pretty lousy in their respective roles...
...where the Kates and I lay out all our papers and peck away at endless chapters while munching on discount Valentine’s candy. It’s a warm, encouraging atmosphere (“My thesis is a piece of crap!”), and much more pleasant than working solo. It is also the intellectual environment that the Harvard admissions brochures brag about: “Ari, would you say that the child in my source is ‘hitting’ the other child with a baseball bat?” “Katie...
...boyfriend put it, take advantage of that “giant golden parachute” known as the Government Department. This is a great decision. Graduate school is in the near future anyway, at which time a Dissertation Club can be yours. In Cambridge, your senior spring will be pleasant; while your thesising friends are taking advantage of their only hope of a golden parachute—Jack Daniels over bad drafts—you’ll be living it up at Senior...
Colleagues praised Feller’s myriad professional achievements and pleasant personal characteristics...