Word: rarer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Toronto has grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period, thanks to something rarer than its timing. Toronto boasts a festival oddity: "A semi-normal audience," says Picturehouse president Bob Berney, who is bringing The Orphanage, directed by Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro's protégé, Juan Antonio Bayona. Unlike Cannes and, increasingly, Sundance, Toronto saves lots of tickets for civilians, who buy the majority of the more than 300,000 tickets each year. And though hotel and restaurant prices have risen in recent years...
...series. Luckily, Damon and Greengrass share a shorthand from collaborating on the second Bourne film, as well as certain personality traits unusual in their trade, like flexibility and a lack of ego. And in a Hollywood besotted with robots and wizards, this actor-director team shares something rarer still: Damon and Greengrass are virtuosos of realism...
...long-lived Harvard band is rare; a successful Harvard band is rarer. Chester French could well be on its way to being both. The genre-bending musical duo of David A. “D.A.” Wallach ’07 and Maxwell C. Drummey ’07, a Harvard fixture since the pair’s freshman year, is currently in contract negotiations with Star Trak Entertainment, a subsidiary of Interscope Records, Universal Music Group, and Vivendi SA. Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—the core members of producing team the Neptunes and rock group...
...forced to refresh ESPN Game Tracker every 30 seconds, all the while sending e-mails to the other beat writers for updates. It’s a rare thing that a major Crimson sports team marches all the way to the NCAA Tournament. It’s rarer still that any team, independent of conference affiliation, starts a season so poorly and rattles off 12 wins in a row to rout the rest of the league.The Ivies’ second-place finisher. Dartmouth, was just 9-5 in conference play. Quite frankly, nobody else ever had a shot.This Harvard team...
...Jacobovici also contends that "Jose," a name that appears in the Bible as that of one of Jesus's brothers, is rarer than previous scholars thought...