Word: spokenness
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...Underage gigs, and a growing number of like-minded club nights in cities across the country, comes from the same impulse that prompted Killcoyne to organize Underage in the first place. "Me and my friends were really, really obsessed with this band called The Horrors," says the modestly spoken but over-achieving Killcoyne between sets as a DJ at a London record store. "I tried to see them seven or eight times - once in a strip club in Soho - and I couldn't get in. Because they sell alcohol, you have to be 18, and I look really young." Horrified...
...masses have spoken: third time's the charm. The threequels of Spider-Man, Shrek and Pirates of the Caribbean are the three top-grossing films of 2007. The Bourne Ultimatum opened to sensational business last week and promises to be the biggest moneymaker of the three Matt Damon spy thrillers...
...encourage in us a kind of smugness, a sense that if they were only more psychologically more hip and open (as we are), their lives would be more fully human, a little less cartoonish. These films therefore miss much of Austen's satirical edge - and much of her gently spoken toughness of mind and spirit...
...same sitting. Aaron Yoo nearly steals the movie as Hal’s curiously surreal friend Heston, who casts a strange otherworldliness that would put E.T. to shame. Despite his limited screen time, Yoo delivers some of the movie’s sharpest and funniest lines with his soft-spoken delivery...
...feeling of uneasiness about my questionable knack for putong hua (Chinese for “common language,” Mandarin) is not that I’m seriously handicapped by it. Rather, I’m embarrassed by my ineptitude with a language I’ve spoken since I was born—bothered that there are some parts of my family’s culture that are not naturally inherited but require a conscious effort to understand...