Word: semi
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...DIED. HARRIET DOERR, 92, American author who achieved literary fame at the age of 73 after her first novel won the 1984 National Book Award; in Pasadena, California. Doerr's Stones for Ibarra was a poignant semi-biographical tale of a couple whose new life in Mexico quickly becomes overshadowed by the husband's dis-covery that he has leukemia...
...also thank Conan C. O’Brien ’85 for lining up tennis star Serena Williams along with Simpsons voices Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer for Thursday night’s show. Truthfully, I’m wondering how Conan, former president of the semi-secret Sorento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine as well as ex-Simpsons writer and producer, will manage to devote enough attention to Serena with the likes of Bart, Homer and Mr. Burns around...
Eminem sailed into Barcelona last week for the MTV Europe Music Awards on an updraft of hot reviews and the box office success of his movie debut. 8 Mile, a semi-autobiopic starring the rapper - whose talent is fast rendering his many controversies irrelevant - grossed $54.5 million in its first weekend in the U.S. What's more, 8 Mile and Eminem's performance has been generating serious Oscar buzz (yes, it really has), and the sound track from his movie went straight to the top of the Billboard 200. If there had been a Best Crossover...
...This semi-intellectual defense of a kid’s book is perhaps a way of excusing the sparkly purple cape in my closet at home, or the way the pages of my four brightly-colored Potter books are lovingly smudged and worn while my Shakespeare reading remains woefully untouched. But I’m not alone. The weekend after I bought the fourth book, I saw countless grown-up muggles (what witches call people) carrying it on the subway or on the New York City street, and knew that when we opened the pages, we were all going...
...said he tried out after a representative of the show called the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, looking for a contestant for the show’s college competition...