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...highlights for Lily, and the book, is her meeting Steve Farley, a guy in the band. Lily follows Steve, the first boy she ever kissed, into a treehouse in the woods. After several quiet panels of the two of them making out Steve suddenly stops and mysteriously apologizes. "For what," Lily thinks, "Giving me the best feelings I've ever had in my life?" Steve abruptly ends their time together, leaving Lily to wonder what she did wrong. She frets over it wishing she could go back and do it right, though we can see that Steve simply got embarrassed...
Frequenters of final clubs expect tonight to be the start of another quiet weekend at Harvard’s eight all-male clubs...
...first solo capital campaign in the school’s hundred-year history, HBS is looking to collect $500 million in gifts from its alums—half of which has already been raised in the so-called “quiet phase” before the campaign’s public announcement and kickoff last month...
...perceptions of Sandler as well. In Punch-Drunk Love’s first half, Barry holds our interest far more as a temperamental volcano than as a patient, low-key professional; it’s hilarious to watch him suddenly go on a window-breaking rampage, or dissolve into quiet sobs without warning in mid-conversation, or silently walk into a bathroom and rip it to shreds with his bare hands. But as he falls for Lena, Barry’s energy grows to serve a normal, workable emotion; his outbursts are no longer meaningless cries into a void...
HMS’ Higginson Professor of Cell Biology Howard Green, who knew Horvitz since he began his current career as a professor at MIT over 20 years ago, described the Nobel laureate as “quiet, very diligent, very active, hardworking and serious...