Word: semi
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...many respects, Parker is like current Los Angeles Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson—subdued and semi-mysterious. Never in-your-face, he is always laid back, allowing his silence to speak volumes and never fully articulating what is on his mind. Even without significant effort on his part, his legendary status motivates his rowers...
Lynda Barry's new book may present a problem for the librarians smart enough to purchase it. Barry classifies her book as "autobifictionalography." Should libraries start a new section? Maybe. It wouldn't be the only book there. No fewer than four semi-autobiographical books about growing up, all by women cartoonists, have appeared or will appear this fall. TIME.comix has dedicated each week in October to covering a different volume...
...have to confess that my standards for “excellent” are not quite as stringent for a horror film as for movies of other genres. Most horror flicks, that is, are so comically awful that anything with a semi-coherent plot and reasonably good acting already qualifies as decent, and the scale goes up or down from there. So, while The Ring surely is not The Godfather, or even American Beauty, for what it is, it’s quite good and worth seeing...
...night’s second play, The Actor’s Nightmare, George Spelvin, played by Matthew J. Weinstock ’05, the semi-amnesiac lead actor thrown into plays ranging from Hamlet to Happy Days, gropes for lines and the zipper of his costar’s dress only to deliver perhaps the most painful soliloquy in stage history. The hilariously over-acted Horatio of Christian E. Lerch, and the dead-on deadpan delivery of Winnie by Jessica M. Gordon ’02-’03, highlighted the play’s comic effect...
...Pier One to open. I wanted to buy new cushions for the chairs in my room. Because I chose to sleep late, I hadn’t eaten at Cabot and was enjoying an egg and cheese and coffee while I made flashcards for Spanish Bab at a semi-frantic pace...