Word: spits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...found the spit-spewing challenges invigorating, but feared that others would find them juvenile. So four years ago, when I first walked through Johnson Gate dutifully clutching a red folder, I promised myself that no Harvard student would ever learn of my dark, spandex secret. I did quite well for a year, sticking to pseudo-intellectual subjects—Kant’s probable interpretation of globalization, Derrida’s take on postmodernism. Give me a black beret, and the image would have been complete...
...being drained, and the corpses are being removed, it still seems slightly impious to speak of a bright side or a silver lining. To laud anything good that has happened, any mitigating factors, seems to make light of the enormity of the whole disaster, to disrespect the dead, to spit upon the newly homeless with an air of moldy optimism...
...admire sport and watch it for its beauty and elegance. That makes sense. But to care and cheer and stomp for other grown men to win? That's bizarre. These brutes throw chairs at fans. They take steroids and pretend it mysteriously got into their cereal. They curse and spit and scratch their groins and then whack the cameraman who chronicles their every move for the worshipful masses. And make 5 million bucks...
...Saying he is reluctant to be "just a windbag" on fair trade, Firth has also invested in a chain of coffee shops in London that pledges to compensate the crop's farmers fairly. He has worked the counter and participated in coffee tastings. "You swirl, you spit, and someone talks poetry about it," he says...
...achieve cohesion, Kline glories in the character's variety. Spontaneity and impulse are key to his approach. Exploring the role in rehearsal, Kline improvised without warning, flopping onto the floor when he was meant to sit, tearing pages from a book and pasting them onto Polonius' head with spit. Between scenes he would pounce on a piano or indulge what friends josh as chronic hypochondria by relaxing his back in a vibrating armchair, transported from his book-lined apartment in an Upper West Side brownstone. Kline and the orderly, meticulous director Liviu Ciulei clashed so often that Producer Papp joined...