Word: studious
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...civil rights could be ‘All the things everybody’s gotten into fights about over jazz.’” This mix of seriousness and humor is indicative of Monson’s working credo: she combines the nuanced, critical eye of a studious intellectual with the uncensored delight of a lover and practitioner of music. Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson did not begin her life expecting to have such a prodigious title, or indeed with any expectations about a life in academia. Monson loved music and was playing...
...with three terrific movies the kids can see without irreparable social damage and their keepers should enjoy. Chicken Little is a genuine Disney cartoon, with a storytelling sense and graphic precision worthy of the old animation masters. The title character (voiced by Zach Braff) has huge glasses, a studious mien, not the best posture. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying to win a chaotic baseball game or shaking a tail feather in his patented chicken dance. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles...
...loved working in that area, because he was a very studious person....Nothing would make him prouder than to be associated with Harvard in any way,” said the younger Dougherty. “This guy didn’t just read books, he devoured them...
...road, it’s back to clashing personas: the studious McKinley does her homework on the bus, and Mays engages herself in a different hobby—sleeping...
...about a canine celebrity who thinks he's still on his TV show when he's really stranded in the desert. Those three films have a high standard to meet in the sassy, bouncy Chicken Little. The title character (voiced by Zach Braff) has huge glasses and a studious mien. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying to win a chaotic baseball game or shaking a tail feather in his soon-to-be-copied chicken dance. It's up to him and his outcast pals to persuade the local skeptics that, darn it, the sky really is falling...