Word: sakes
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...foundered when it was first submitted three years ago, but Schumer says the issue is too important to give up on. "Every day, witnesses who are willing to stand up in court and testify about a violent crime in their community put their lives on the line for the sake of justice," said Schumer. "The very least we can do is protect them...
...Nintendo music sensibility, with mixed results. The "Woods" theme from Castlevania II sounds like a Van Halen outtake on speed, as its mathematical, shredding guitar lines lead into glorious faux-hardcore breakdowns. Yet across the genre, cheesy overharmonized lines abound, suggesting the danger of complexity for its own sake as well as the immaturity of adolescent gamers. Again, this critique is nothing new; loftier versions of these accusations have been leveled at Handel and Bach for their own contrapuntal (mis)adventures. These compositions may be seen as pedantic, heavy-handed, passionless or academic. But without the occasional excess of ornamentation...
...bizarre Korean soap opera I recently discovered on the internet entitled “Love Story in Harvard.”You’ll need to weather some brutal things in Cambridge, and so don’t get ahead of yourself just yet.For your sake, I sure hope you know a lot about fountains.—Staff writer Pablo S. Torre can be reached at torre@fas.harvard.edu...
...make of the gulf between movies that perform well commercially and those that win awards? It's the difference between what a group of people find admirable and what a bulk of people find useful for entertainment. I don't have any problem with entertainment for entertainment's sake. It's been paying my bills for a long time...
...willing to concede that Ford is a more than usually spry 63-year-old--he's a movie star, for heaven's sake; it's his business not to act his age--but we have to wonder why, when the picture is set in Seattle, where it rains often, this detail-oriented guy never seems to remember his raincoat or umbrella. Then there's the matter of the family. What has rendered them so friendless? Only once does someone call to inquire why they haven't been around. The mailman doesn't appear. No one drops...