Word: sit
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Resnicoff said the protesters were opposed to interhouse [dining]... There is not enough room for Adams residents to sit, and our sense of community is jeopardized," Resnicoff said...
Hicks: Despite all the memorable reckless experiences in my past, my favorite thing to do is sit in a quiet caf and write poetry. My inspiration is a guy who is completing a master's degree here and continuing his Ph.D. at Oxford. He has published books of poetry and he collects information about his topics by living the life of his subjects. He's currently writing a book called "100 Days in Drag." I know him personally and agree that although it sounds clich, the best way to learn about people is to walk in their shoes...
...what do I think? I enjoyed the movie. Thetense images of unpredictable terror scared me,the injustices angered me, Frank's plight movedme. I didn't sit through The Siege--I feltvery much a part of it. Zwick explains, "Movieshave taken on this role of being entirely toocomfortable and predictable...it's a verytranquil, almost soporific exercise. I don't thinkmovies have to be that way, I think they can beprovocative, and unsettling, and galvanizing, andupsetting. I don't necessarily think that bytalking about the possibilities of internment, orby talking about repression, that one galvanizesrepression, I think one galvanizes thought...
...sconvenient, I'll play either into the mainstreamor the role of the outsider. My name isn't toohard to pronounce and my skin tone is merely"swarthy," so it's easy to pass as notparticularly "ethnic." Alternately, whendiscussion group announcements accusingly ask me"Why do all the black kids sit together in thecafeteria?" I answer to myself, "Well, at least myroommates have a 'colored man' like me eating withthem...
Glenn, never one to sit long on his laurels, seems to have found a way to fill his postorbital time. Once he gets his land legs, he'll be reporting to literary agent Mort Janklow, who is said to be marketing the astronaut's memoirs. Wanna bet it won't be a joke book...