Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside, Harvard has a rotation between sophomore Mike Sands and junior Joe We idle. Sands Possesses great size and is an effective blitzer, while We idle is very quick and also can eat Rice Krispies with a spoon up his nose...
...Brolin: Spoons. Sleeping in spoon-style...
...momentum but makes for some informative side trips. Who knew that the Elks, the fraternal organization, was started by New York actors who worked all week and needed a Sunday wateringhole? Or that Darrow chose struggling writers for law partners, including the poet Edgar Lee Masters, whose classic Spoon River Anthology, Lukas asserts, borrowed from Darrow's own first novel, Farmington...
...Hoffa has the confidence of the underdog who knows the forces arrayed against him have only enhanced his populist appeal. Sitting down at Pick-a-Deli, a greasy spoon adjacent to the produce warehouse, Hoffa orders his usual: scrambled eggs ("Gimme lots of catsup for my eggs"), orange juice and wheat toast with grape jam. He's annoyed by comparisons with his father ("I have the name, but I'm also someone in my own right"), yet he recalls the patriarch vividly and talks about him at length. "It was draining to go see him" in jail, Hoffa says...
While the audience is eating this up with a spoon, Annaud smoothly slips in political issues concerning China's occupancy of Tibet and the ongoing struggle of the Dalai Lama to maintain Tibet's traditional peaceful position. Both Harrer and we the viewers--who have been in parallel states of emotional responsiveness the whole way through--are at this point immediately receptive and sympathetic to the urgency of the Tibetan cause. In only half a movie, the audience comes to buy a complete shift in a character's personality, a familial reconciliation which was at first daunting and allegiance...