Word: seems
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...knowledgeable about everyone. From this privileged position, he delivers dispassionate, wry judgment on all and sundry; perhaps a sad situation, but a much more entertaining one for us, the readers. Nor does he inspire much pity in us, so crusty and self-sufficient does he seem. The novel is written from Bech's own point of view, and opens on the grizzled, still prodigiously randy gentleman touring the Czech Republic with lissome, admiring dissidents hanging from his gnarled elbows...
...Manhattan skyline to Woody driveling anxiety to his shrink, the first moments of Antz suggest a film destined to become another prototypical Woody Allen movie, until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psycho-analyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." The makers of Antz seem particularly interested in demonstrating their ability to depict water and human movement, disregarding the fact that the plot must make some rather forced detours in order to accommodate these animated showpieces. Though the character of Allen as well as those of the other actors (voiced by Dan Akroyd, Anne Bancroft, Sylvester...
...Mike Giampaolo '00, IM competition gets pretty intense, partly because of the academic pressures students face throughout the week. While Giampaolo devotes most of his athleticism to varsity football and baseball, he also offers his services to the B-League basketball team. "Tempers really flare sometimes," he says. "People seem to use [IMs] as an outlet. They let their anger out on the court." True to Giampaolo's words, a thrown elbow in a recent Winthrop-Lowell frisbee game came dangerously close to launching the entire affair into a Jerry Springer-style brawl, as players from both teams...
With his British accent and shaggy gray eyebrows, Pearsall looks like the stereotypical professor of medieval English literature. In other words, he doesn't immediately seem like someone who'd leave the stacks of Widener too often...
Averell's lack of clothing invariably provokes questions about his place of origin. "People assume you're from Antarctica, so it doesn't seem cold here, or from Florida, because you're not used to wearing pants." Averell is from New Jersey...