Word: semi
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...answer as soon as I know what the question is, thank you very much, I responded in my head. Needless to say, our lovers’ quarrel ended quickly and we were back on track.Now, I’m a senior, a thesis-writer, very grown up with my semi-imaginary boyfriend, and interested in worldly things. Time has transfigured and deepened our relationship. The Ali family grew again, a niece or a granddaughter born in francophone Canada this fall. “Sophia au bain-bain!” a woman wrote, with an unopenable attachment of photographs...
...Aided by the intimate setting of the Edison and Newman Room, where the performers were framed by rows of folding chairs in a semi-circle, it was evident that there was more to the music than crescendos and legatos. Although Lipkind and Schellenberger were surrounded by shelves upon shelves of old, leather-bound books, the most significant narratives of the evening were made through the resonating notes of the piano and cello...
...recent years, the Dyke Ball has been the Wellesley institution most scrutinized by the media. Articles most often document Wellesley social life as revolving around this event, a campus-wide fête celebrating non-normative sexualities. It has achieved semi-mythical status among the Boston frat crowd, with the “creative black tie” dress code interpreted to mean, “dress as scantily as possible...
Tales of Ferrell's personal kindness are legion and, frankly, get a little repetitive. But in his trailer on the Semi-Pro set, he really does come across as the warm, slightly goofy father of two that he is. He's not "on" or overbearing, just engaged. The only giveaway that he's more than just a dude hanging out in vintage polyester basketball shorts is that every once in a while, comedy spews out of him in extemporized, perfectly paced paragraphs. Here, for instance, is Ferrell's description of his character in Semi-Pro: "I'm Jackie Moon, owner...
...office in Anchorman and ... you get the point. "In Blades we do a thing where I tell the story of my life"--wearing only a towel--"with my tattoos, but that's for story purposes." He's laughing now. "I'm trying to think. Do we do it in Semi-Pro? No, I think I'm fine. Oh, there's one photo of me with a basketball in front of my crotch, just lying on a bench, which is a replica of a real photo, and, um, so that'll probably be in the movie. Who am I kidding...