Word: scoping
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...Houston (Dennis Quaid) to lead 910 pioneers in the Battle of San Jacinto against General Santa Anna’s army with the famous battle cry, “Remember the Alamo.” A larger budget and more violence could have helped better convey the epic scope of these battles, but, in contrast with previous portrayals, are determined to create realistic heroes, warts and all. The best performance is Thornton’s, who, as the charismatic Davy Crockett, superably demonstrates the pressure of a good man struggling to live up to his great name. While the movie...
...give some idea of the scope of their ambition, Haan, who is a Crimson executive, and McCambridge, the chair of the Underegraduate Council’s Student Life Committee, hope to draw 7,000 people to this concert. The last major concert on campus—by pop-rock band Guster last November—drew only...
...pharmacist's daughter. The ad has won more awards than any other commercial in the world. Gondry, often self-critical when discussing dreams, or love, or his films, turns superconfident when talking about his video work, compiled on a richly varied dvd that was released last fall. But the scope and narrative demands of a full-length motion picture meant his first big-screen venture would inevitably be tougher - it was critically panned, even by him. "I had issues with it," Gondry says of Human Nature, about a man raised as an ape. He declines to elaborate, apart from saying...
...OEB’s scope is no less than the tens of millions of species that inhabit this planet, and its questions concern no less than their origin, evolution and preservation. Pellegrino University Professor E.O. Wilson—one of the pioneers of biodiversity studies—advanced his now world-famous conservation studies here at Harvard. The OEB’s Herbaria houses 5.5 million plant specimens, filed in rooms of endless metal chests, including the largest, most important collection in the world of Chinese plant species; the Museum of Comparative Zoology has an impressive 21 million specimens...
...would want to make sure that those freshmen are still in contact with a general adviser to make sure that they’re seeing the whole scope of what’s here at Harvard and not just considering themselves chemists from day one,” he says...