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...deeply patient director. He lets his players stroll, chatting, to their destinies, his camera panning or tracking their very normal, very unsuspicious, movements, while we in the audience get the creeps. We know, quite early in this film, that when death or capture appears it will be sudden. A car door opens or its window rolls down and there it is - "the distinguished thing." The effect, finally, is a forced, but mutedly melodramatic perspective on the religious saw about how, in life, we are ever in the midst of death...
...grow the Faculty to 750 members by the end of the decade, but noted that “we must also remain flexible enough that we can adjust with the ever-changing state of our finances and other resources”—a nod to the sudden slowdown on faculty hiring this year that frustrated and surprised department chairs in August...
...expository writing and author of the citation guide “Writing With Sources,” does not believe that Harvard will need TurnItIn anytime soon.According to Harvey, “When plagiarism does occur in Expos, it’s usually pretty easy to spot from sudden shifts in style or topic, and usually easy enough to check out by ‘Googling.’ I suppose this is one reason why we haven’t considered using a program like TurnItIn.”And the secretary of Harvard College’s Administrative...
...this musing about curveballs got me thinking in quite another, more serious, direction. The curveball is among the host of baseball terms that has been appropriated as metaphor in the common parlance. It connotes a sudden, unexpected turn of events...
...have to go, your best bet is to go into Spider-man mode and scale the tops of the seats to reach your destination. Thirdly, no matter how much Nyquil you consume, you will not get a full night’s sleep on a bus. Aside from the sudden screams of pain mentioned earlier, there are countless other obstacles to overcome in trying to stay asleep on a bus. Therefore, piecing together a good night’s sleep over the course of the ride and the following day is a tricky task. And since roughly an eighth...