Word: semis
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...occasional beach ball, water balloon, and crowd-surfer passed overhead, undergrads in plastic ponchoes sang and danced Saturday in a muddy Tercentenary Theater to ’90s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going...
...Sing Now” is most engaging when it develops the friends’ personal stories. There’s the maybe-gay starving actor, the high-strung boring one with the loudmouth wife (played by the irritating Molly Shannon of “Saturday Night Live” semi-fame), the L.A. hotshot, the Manhattan lawyer divorcee, and the normal guy who keeps measuring his receding hairline in inches. They’ve all got their idiosyncrasies and personal issues, but according to the movie, they can miraculously transform and produce beautiful a cappella harmonies to escape their worries...
Alcohol Edu’s case studies are, to put it bluntly, stupid and insulting. Their use of stock stereotypes is repulsive. The blond semi-anorexic sorority girl? The black athletics recruit? Please. Spare me. Do I care that some imaginary red-haired girl is worried that after a drunken one-night stand with a sketchy upperclassman, she might have an infection in her nether regions? Watch out, kids—especially if you’re female! Drunken sex with strangers is bad and will give you nasty diseases...
Don’t lie: some of you are amped for Yardfest. You can’t wait to relive your days of Stephan Jenkins admiration and rocking out in your rooms to “Semi-Charmed Life.” But for the rest of you, maybe it’s time for a road-trip: If you’re pissed because your inner- indie snob is offended, head over to Brown. Performers there include The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Mission of Burma and Yo La Tengo. “A band that less people have heard...
...Markell said Cho didn't give the slightest hint that he was capable of mayhem. The salesman who sold Cho the Glock 19 9mm semi-automatic compact pistol barely remembers him, according to Markell, who was not at the store when Cho shopped for his murder weapon. The salesman did recall, said Markell, that Cho browsed for awhile, then picked out a Glock 19, which was not an unusual choice. This Austrian-made pistol is popular among competition shooters. A slightly larger version of the Glock sidearm is the favored service weapon of most U.S. police and sheriff's departments...