Word: thanks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Mario was shy when it came to praise and gratitude. Strangers stopped him and said thank you, but he didn't know how to react. Barbara had worried that she would lose him to gangs and drugs in high school. But he cleaned up and enlisted in the Army after graduation. It wasn't long before De Leon was shouldering a heavy SAW (squad automatic weapon) gun on his broad 6-ft. 2-in. frame through the rugged passes of Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division...
...viewer's patience is being tried by the relentless despair Jones' character appears to live in, Natalie Portman shows up and injects a bolt of life as a gambler trying to wheedle her one big win. She's just the defibrillator this languishing movie needs, and we thank Portman for her saucy radiance...
...taking a trip to Cuba to check out Castro's medical system. (Guess what he found? It's better than ours!) Moore shot back with an open letter that claimed the Bush Administration was "abusing the federal government for raw, crass political purposes." It was his way of saying thank you for all the free publicity...
...doesn’t (sort of) rap, thank you very much. His special purview is spoken word, which is a form of song that emphasizes hypnotic speech, in this case between intermittent (sort of) rap and sparse instrumentation. It’s the perfect vehicle for West, who enjoys speaking. He wishes to use his album, “Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations,” to tell us “to be true to who [we] are.” Ever the believer in hard truths, he (sort of) raps at one point...
Before the duo came on, Harvard’s The Sinister Turns entertained the crowd. The piano driven indie-pop band preceded each song by displaying a glitter-covered banner with the song title and a poster that read “thank you” at the end. One band member’s mother snapped photos from the floor—apparently she taught her son well...