Word: somberness
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...know, and the pilot doesn't bother making it plausible, but it does play up the time-travel culture-clash aspects for all they're worth. Even the predictable situations - Sam mentions his cell phone to a cop who answers, "You need to sell what?" - pay off. (A more somber, striking moment: Sam looks up after he comes to and sees the gleaming new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.) But the real fascination is how the show plays off the techno-expectations about police work that CSI has bred into us. With no computers or lab work...
...That is, after all, what this phenomenon boils down to: what makes you happy. As ecstatic as California’s gay community was in June, November may prove to be a somber affair. The economy is collapsing around us, gas prices are through the roof, and who knows what the world will look like tomorrow. Who’s to begrudge a little kiss...
Diane M. Paulus ’87 wears a navy blue suit to her office, but not without a thick silver bracelet spiraled around her wrist. The flashy piece of jewelry set against the somber hue of her skirt and jacket hints at the tension between the art and business sides of drama, a tension Paulus negotiates daily as the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre. “The primary mission of the A.R.T. is to advance the art of theater,” says Robert Brustein, the A.R.T.’s co-founder. And since...
...Winfrey chose just one book for her club: Night, Elie Wiesel's somber Holocaust chronicle. After that, she picked five books in 2007 and two so far this year: A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle...
...blush and look at the floor.With a sigh, Frederick stood violently and exited the room. A paper fell from his Byron. Roxanna automatically picked it up. The poor man! thought our little countrymaid, gazing after him through the sunny open doorway, so different from the dark orifices and somber corners of the manor in England. But no! and Roxanna shook her golden head firmly. She wished that she were not so invested in Frederick’s happiness, were not so aware of his every sigh and glance. Yet she could not help it. She felt an inexplicable connection with...