Word: struck
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...often left audiences adrift. The trouble with this kind of filmmaking is that we are encouraged to feel superior to the characters we are watching, but are not given any special justification for our misanthropy. There was nearly always something ugly, careless and unfelt about the way Altman struck his superior poses. An imitation of that style is an affront no one needs...
...passengers on the shuttle, none of the 15 students on the bus were seriously injured. According to Carl Tempesta, the manager of operations for Harvard Transportation Services, as the shuttle driver was making a right turn onto Everett Street, a bicyclist struck the passenger side of the bus causing her to fall off her bike. The bicyclist, who Tempesta identified as a Lesley College graduate student, was taken by ambulance to a hospital for a complete medical evaluation. According to Tempesta, the student suffered an ankle injury in addition to some scratches and bruises. The shuttle, which was running...
...employees. I thought so at first, too. At the beginning of the year, I would grab my soda and poptarts, exchange a brief greeting in French with the cashier, and go back to my dorm and my studies without another thought. Each time I came to CVS, I was struck by how glad the Haitian employees were to see me. The year wore on and our French greetings turned to lengthier French banter, and still I could not understand why our acquaintance should bring them such joy. Then I realized that they were probably homesick. That it was nice...
...last week at a contentious White House meeting, saying they simply didn't have the votes, House Republican leaders forced a renegotiation of the bill, moving it further to the right to make it more palatable to their members. Then, after marathon talks over the weekend, an agreement was struck in the wee hours of Sunday morning, and the GOP House leadership quickly got behind the deal. "We are supporting this bill," House minority leader John Boehner told reporters Sunday night, adding that he was asking members to vote for the measure...
...Democrats struck a slightly more dignified tone. "There's a terrible crisis affecting the American economy. We have come together on a bill to alleviate the crisis," House Banking Committee chairman Barney Frank told reporters in a press conference around the corner. "And because somebody hurt [the Republicans'] feelings, they decide to punish the country. I mean, I would not have imputed that degree of pettiness and hypersensitivity...