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...student body apparently possesses a poor understanding of the resources available. Many students have never heard of the programs or they believe that they are some type of "mushy" method in which the counselors have a list of positive adjectives to spit out when you call or drop in. It is not enough to advertise these programs in the Radcliffe pamphlets that barely anybody reads...
...really, it's perfectly normal. They're bored, maybe a little lonely, so they throw a stranger into a fence, kick him a few times, and spit in his face. It's nothing that doesn't happen every day at Alcatraz...
...script like this should be a push-over for any cast. Just spit it out and you can't go wrong. But this cast seems unable to do just that. They're slow on their cues and in their delivery. Attempting to read meaning into lines that don't have any is a trying exercise for cast and audience alike. Mamet's quips must rattle out like an artillery barrage, not like languid dinnertime conversation...
...flickers of light caused by MACHOs amid the flashes from thousands of naturally pulsating stars that regularly switch from dim to bright and back again. After nearly 2 million individual observations that yielded just one dubious MACHO, Griest's group was ready to give up. Then, unexpectedly, the computer spit out what he calls "a beautiful event." After Griest and his colleagues had raised and ruled out phenomena that might be tricking them, they were ready to unveil their MACHO...
...desktop publishers, are what people used to produce books and newspapers before the invention of the Laserwriter. At Garfield, we would send our files through a large series of cables and buffers to a machine about the size of a refrigerator turned over on its side. The machine would spit out neatly typeset copy onto a canister of photographic paper, which we would then feed through a developer and hang up to dry. At least, that's how it was supposed to work. But typesetters are not as simple as Laserwriters, and whatever could go wrong usually...