Word: sheerness
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...worth the price of admission) and the mild social commentary, one finds it difficult to really care about the plight of Spritz and his family. Perhaps it’s because he and his father are the only fleshed-out characters. More likely it’s the sheer affluence involved; a main source of conflict is whether Spritz will get a job that boosts his income from $200,000 to over $1 million. With this as background, there’s little at stake; at the end of the day, everyone is going to do okay...
...ideas sounded good, but no sooner had he got them going than the whole system began to buckle under the sheer crush of patients--particularly extremely ill ones, who required so much care that they left doctors unable to help healthier people. To fix that, Darkoh turned to checkout-line models that Wal-Mart helped pioneer, instituting what amounted to an express lane for people in need of just testing or medication and a slow lane for the gravely...
...aren't rich or famous or even conspicuously good-looking. What they have in common is that they all edit blogs: amateur websites that provide news, information and, above all, opinions to rapidly growing and devoted audiences drawn by nothing more than a shared interest or two and the sheer magnetism of the editor's personality. Over the past five years, blogs have gone from an obscure and, frankly, somewhat nerdy fad to a genuine alternative to mainstream news outlets, a shadow media empire that is rivaling networks and newspapers in power and influence. Which raises the question...
...Gelman blundered his way / into your heart. You found him irredeemably / wealthy. You were both post minimalist,” is enjoyable in or out of context. Other poems are more approachable. “Keith,” the bathtub-cocaine-and-Shakespeare poem, succeeds through sheer force of whimsy. It’s hard not to like a poem that ends with the lines “who did you sleep with last night I say this guy named / Shakespeare.” Robinson explains that she wrote this poem while taking a computer science class that explored...
...murder-mystery and satire of same, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. The film’s most dubious aspect, though, is a bizarre half-baked subplot involving child sexual abuse. In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Kilmer and Black—either from jet-lag or sheer fatigue of the press junket circuit—dismissively respond to questions about their equally insipid film. The Harvard Crimson: “Kiss Kiss” takes an incredibly cynical view of Los Angeles and Hollywood. Do you think it was an accurate depiction of show business? Black: It?...