Word: quiets
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...send up breakthrough and Oscar signals. It doesn't quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy. Director Marc Forster and a tony cast (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah) hit every punch line with a gong, and Ferrell, who's quiet and fine, seems as lost among them as Harold is in his suddenly fictional world...
...sense of being led through a dark landscape by a guide who's determined to make you see what it looks like in sunlight. In short takes "like scenes in a film," Carlyon plunges from the tranquil present to the midst of battle and back. "All is quiet, and the place speaks to you," he writes at Villers-Bretonneux. "You can hear the chatter of machine guns and the shouts of men on the ground." He doesn't see himself as a military historian. "I'm telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging...
It’s the first official weekly meeting of the Harvard College Democrats, “the largest and most active political advocacy organization on campus,” according to the pamphlets being distributed at the door. Things immediately quiet down when Eric P. Lesser ’07, president of the Harvard Democrats, takes the stage, dressed to impress in business casual attire. After a couple of quips about the Bush administration, the self-proclaimed liberal begins to incite the crowd about the upcoming midterm elections. “Do you want to be a part...
...island. Frangipani, hibiscus and towering coconut palms camouflage the resort's land villas - where a staff of 230 serves up to 150 guests - and sand forms a soft white carpet throughout. This is barefoot country, so leave your heels at home. But don't take quiet to mean boring; Baros is water-sports nirvana. You could easily spend every waking moment in your swimsuit, fishing and sailing, scuba diving and snorkeling. Sepp Zedelmayer, the dive-school owner and a 26-year Baros veteran, says his favorite dive site is like "fish soup." He's not exaggerating. During one dive...
...Donato said. “I don’t think that he had a lot of help back there—he would have had to be just short of miraculous for us to be in that game.” Tobe, to his credit, was able to quiet the Dartmouth offense for the entire third period. “You go out there and you give it your best every period, you get some bounces, you don’t get some,” Tobe said. “I couldn’t really give...