Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This isn't to say that the movie doesn't have its humorous moments. In one scene, Jake helps a police officer get his estranged girlfriend back by composing a song "Oh Marjorie," sung to the tune of "Oh Christmas tree." The sight of the officer bleating out the song in a steak joint as livestock baa in the background is silly (and desperate) enough to be mildly amusing. Still, it's the sort of scene that you know has been done before--a feeling we seem to get often; a class nerd gets shoved into a locker, carollers disperse...
...case, is that the herds of sauropods formed nesting groups, like the duck-billed maiasaurs ("good-mother lizards") discovered in western Montana by paleontologist John Horner of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. "It's a survival strategy," says Horner, adding admiringly, "it would have been quite a sight...
...beginning of the Beethoven Sonata in G (Op. 31 No. 1) Ohlsson's fingerwork was troublingly sloppy, at least compared to his voicing; but this may have been a matter of adjusting to the piano. He took the opening allegro a good sight slower than the indicated vivace, but used the broadened canvas to play around with all its quirky syncopations...
First-years heard the horror stories about the dread of the "bum, bum, budum, bum" of a cappella groups, but never fully understood the true terror until the jams kept coming with no end in sight. Weekend after weekend after weekend after weekend a different group vied for their money and struck fear into their hearts. But the end has come. The Harvard-Yale Jam, features The Radcliffe Pitches, The Harvard Din and Tonics, Dukes Men of Yale and Yale Whim N Rhythm. Prove that you're hardcore and make it to the encore. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre...
Unfortunately the rotations of skewers was imbalanced. Two or three waiters kept on coming to our table, offering cheerfully, "more beef?" Everytime a skewer approached, we would look up hopefully, thinking that perhaps this slab of meat might be something different. When we caught sight of the elusive chicken guy we practically had to flag him down. And I must say the guy carrying the skewer of little impaled chicken hearts never did make it to our table--which was hardly cause for lament for me, although conesseiurs say chicken hearts are one of the more delectable organs...