Word: strangerness
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...hairstyle changes. Why does everything look good on her? Maybe that’s why she has a boyfriend... 4. Race to see how much champagne you can down in the time it takes Clive Owen to figure out that he’s dirty-talking a stranger (Roberts). Then take a shot because she falls for him anyway. 5. Drink every time Owen uses the word “fuck” or makes otherwise crude sexual references in the big blow-up scene with Roberts. Know your limit: this is a lot of drinking. 6. Take a breather...
...woman who sold it to him in the first place. There are quite a few artfully scary supernatural manifestations along the way - at various points the ghost takes control of the car radio, of a Ouija board, of other drivers, and even of the electronic voicebox of a stranger in a restaurant who's had a laryngectomy...
...imposing 6-ft. 5-in. frame and a high-profile list of legal contests, if not victories. Ivan Fisher made his name defending Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted killer whose gritty prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, was famously championed by Norman Mailer. Fisher is no stranger to bad guys. In the 1990s, Fisher defended Haji Ayub Afridi, a man widely believed to be one of Pakistan's major narcotraffickers, as well as someone who was thought to have worked closely with the CIA during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afridi served 3 1/2 years for drug trafficking...
...poetry matters, than it has to matter to everyone, and not just English majors or people who devote all their time to poetry or studying poetry or writing poetry,” she says. Boudreau, who is writing a collection of poetry for her senior thesis, is no stranger to the more formal and technical aspects of poetry composition. Yet, she says she is especially happy when a physics or math concentrator, who may not completely understand the difference between an iamb and a dactyl, gets the courage to perform an original poem in front of an audience...
...body may reject the donated marrow. While in 25 to 30 percent of cases, the patient will have a family member whose marrow is compatible, in 70 to 75 percent of the cases—thousands of patients annually—the patient will need marrow from a stranger. Sam Cross, for example, is of half-Asian, half-Eastern European heritage; his singular heritage makes finding a match for him a challenge. [See correction below...