Word: semi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...because English people can be pretentious and get away with it—I am confused about where my true home really is and feel irrevocably alienated from both of the candidates. I’m a man without a country, constantly having to adapt to life in a semi-foreign environment, changing personalities as frequently as a chameleon changes color...
...perhaps, if we had some rudimentary understanding of our little sexual universe, maybe more—some?—love could be had by all. I learned this firsthand recently, as I sat down for a face-to-face chat with sophomore Natalie Krinsky, the woman behind the semi-phenomenon that is “Sex and the (Elm) City,” the Yale Daily News’ weekly sex column. Increasingly, Krinsky’s column—which began running this fall—serves the college masses as a sexual bible, (re)introducing wayward undergrads...
...players of Final Fantasy video games have been caring about pixels ever since the series debuted in 1987. These are 60-hour games with tangled epic storylines, each set in a completely different visual universe which usually combines magic and technology, spells and broadswords with the semi-salvaged husks of tarnished chrome machinery. Your character is always a thief or a disillusioned soldier, caught between well-meaning extremists and omnipotent conglomerates on a landscape of moral ambiguity. You play to watch the animation, to find out what happens next...
From what can be glimpsed of the costume design, some interesting choices in anachronistic and semi-nude dress have been made. The reason for the choices is never made apparent by the production. The guess is that they were supposed to look cool but, again because of the lighting, it’s hard to tell...
...Kit’s poems by making them the product of a high-school student, and of Falin’s by presenting them only in translations—which are, we understand, far inferior to the rhymed, rhythmic originals. But if the reader is to share the semi-religious experiences of Kit and Falin, the poetry in question must be more than mere scaffolding to advance the author’s themes...