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...digresses too far with a tangential storyline involving Jack’s father. Rather than use Jack’s father as a narrative ploy to illuminate Jill’s healing effect on Jack’s life, Parise fails to utilize the character, creating an unnecessary tangent that both confuses and disturbs the flow of the film. Despite these pointless scenes, in which the actors find it understandably difficult to be convincing, the performances overall are satisfactory. Though I don’t predict any Oscars, none of the actors distract from the film. Parise, who also...
...apparently religious artist: it sees Beanie confronting himself about his misdeeds over what sounds like a poorly-sampled segment of James Blunt’s “No Bravery.” The last song, “Prayer” continues on this short but depressing tangent, with the penitent Beans “Wondering if that’s a sign of how I’m moving through life / A reckless abandonment / A[n] accident waitin’ to happen.” Other noteworthy tracks are the album’s first single...
...easy carrying space for calculators, protractors, and Sir Issac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica.” In addition to their array of free OCS T-shirts, these number-crunchers dress up any outfit with tees bearing mathematical jokes (“Will you lie tangent to my curves?”) that no one outside the Science Center finds even remotely humorous. Government Coming straight from practice across the river, Gov concentrators have little time to shed their athletic gear before class. Never known for their variety, most of these Marxist scholars wear their signature...
...existing suspicions that Ahmadinejad is “either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated.”Ahmadinejad’s response to a question about Iran’s treatment of women, for instance, was typical. Instead of addressing the point, he went off on a tangent saying that “in Iran, every family who’s given a girl is given—in every Iranian family who has a girl, they’re 10 times happier than having a son…women are more respected than men are.” Even...
...petty cash. Most of the professors have been around the department for quite a while and will act like over-excited puppies if you show up at their office hours. Professor Peter V. Marsden, who teaches the required statistics class, is always happy to go off on a tangent about his children and ends every class saying “For once, we got out on time.” Sophomore tutorials cover the same lengthy theory texts social studies concentrators read, but in much smaller doses and with lots of practical application (Read: less room for BS?...