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Check out whether your exam period will be smooth sailing or the ninth circle of hell...
...could call him Vin (The Refrigerator) Diesel: he's that solid, that cool, and precisely as emotive as your average kitchen appliance. The star of such red-meat melodramas as The Chronicles of Riddick and xXx has the huge, smooth head of an outdoor sculpture, a bad Buddha, and the dull eyes and mouth of a golem who's just been recklessly woken. His screen personality could be seen as surly or resentful - in the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry or Toshiro Mifune Yojimbo mode - if he displayed anything as human as an attitude. Instead he simply looms and emits fumes...
...sick, voyeuristic fascination to it--we don't need an exercise in disaster porn. But Columbine is a necessary book. Narrating an event is a way to tame it, to give it a meaning, and the Columbine massacre is an aggressively, catastrophically meaningless event, a rip in the smooth fabric of an otherwise comprehensible world. It's a vacuum that urgently demands to be filled...
...their tips. He turned his head and motioned me in.My left knee gave out but he stayed put.“You got it?”“Yes.”I stumbled as I snuck beneath his arm. Then I was using the hymnal to smooth my dress out. He was next to me, watching me, serious. “Miss Winnie?” The doors drifted shut behind us.“Yes, let’s go.”I’d really tried to act right since Trent had died?...
Most importantly, fashionably dressed Italian Prime Mogul Silvio Berlusconi, true to form, arrived at the G-20 completely “G’d up from the feet up.” Smooth teamwork is not the style of diplomacy the world is used to seeing at these meetings. After all, we’ve come to expect deadlock on the most important issues. The last G-20 summit ended with nothing but an agreement to meet again, and the Doha round of international trade talks was a joke...