Word: swears
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...raves, I found Whishaw?s melancholy teen annoying. He summoned not the shades of Olivier, O?Toole and other famous Hamlets but an adolescent, anorectic Michael Crawford. He has Crawford?s thin, whiny voice, too, ill suited to poetic verse. He begins his big monologue, I swear, by declaring, ?Tuh be or not tuh be.? (It?s ?to,? mate. Rhymes with screw and you.) The performance gets wetter: tears on his cheek, snot peeking out of his nostrils, spume on his lips whenever he pronounces a word beginning with ?p? - and there are lots of them in the soliloquy. Whishaw...
...Small, rugged and surrounded by sea-lashed rocks, Ano and Kato Koufonissia are part of the Cyclades, a tiny cluster of islands beloved by the Greeks but often left off tourist itineraries. Separated by a slim waterway from its sister island, Kato Koufonissi is virtually uninhabited. But the cognoscenti swear by its crystal-clear waters, coarse sand, craggy coves and the single taverna that serves up savory Greek dishes. Blue Star Ferries run trips to Ano Koufonissi three times a week from Piraeus. Don't expect luxurious accommodation on the island, but there are clean and quaint pensions like Akrogiali...
...Habib ’07 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. When not writing for the English-language Daily Star, she spends her time teaching William M. Rasmussen ’04 how to say, “I swear I am not a CIA or Mossad agent” in Arabic and picking up bad Lebanese habits like smoking Marlboro Lights, drinking highly caffeinated tea and sleeping in the afternoon...
Well I, for one, will not stand idle, for I have lived the Palestinian dream; I have seen it almost come true. And I have witnessed the horrific collapse. And I, by God, swear that a childbirth gone so wrong can wait no more. This is why I speak, and this is why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is more than a question of land, security and terrorism...
...Plenty More To Swear About" [July 5], columnist Joe Klein noted that Vice President Dick Cheney deployed the F word against Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor. Cheney later commented that he felt better afterward. He may be right. I uttered the same obscenity at Cheney, and it made me feel better too. LOUK WIJSEN Alameda, Calif...