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...white man’s former black lover, only to discover that she actually cares for the man and subsequently struggles with the maintenance of her lies. Tortuous inner conflict? Oh, you betcha! Notable quotation: Nate: “Now why did you have to burn my toast, baby?” Nisi: “Now, you know you said you wanted everything well done.” “Swordfish” (2001) Character Name: Ginger Knowles Character Analysis: Ginger Knowles faces a profound...nothing. Berry’s sole purpose in the movie is to fulfill...
...working-class family in Perth and the "buzzing" new world that awaits her, Alice Black takes herself off to Paris to work on her manuscript where she meets Mr. Sakamoto, himself researching the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Over glasses of red wine, and later by e-mail, they toast their love of modernity. "The telephone is our rapturous disembodiment," a typical paean begins. "We breathe our selves, like lovers, into its tiny receptacle, and glide out the other end, mere voice, mere function. Wires, currents, satellites, electrical systems: these are the hardware we extend ourselves into, spaced out, underground...
...goodbye to single-malt snobbery. It's time to toast the arrival of more approachable?and affordable?blended whiskeys. Scotland's Jon, Mark and Robbo's Malt Scotch Whisky blends?the Smokey Peaty One, the Rich Spicy One and the Smooth Sweeter One?are already hits with the 18-to-35-year-old set in Europe. Now American distillers like Phillips Union are hoping to crack open the U.S. market with vanilla- and cherry-flavored blends. Connoisseurs may turn up their noses, but the new Scotches are surprisingly smooth...
...time he spent helping students and colleagues, he never seemed rushed. Many of Evans’ colleagues remarked on his gentlemanly presence, his modesty, his refusal to say anything unkind about anyone. Tobin said he remembers that at Evans’ 90th birthday party, a friend gave a toast comparing him to a medieval knight. “There was a kind of chivalric elegance to him,” Tobin said. Bruster quoted a passage from Shakespeare in which Hamlet laments the loss of a great king and father. “Hamlet’s line...
...shout from Andrew Young blocked King at the door--"Don't let him out of here!"--and hands pulled him into a sudden chorus of Happy Birthday. King wore a sheepish, captured look, recorded by one home-movie camera, when pioneer television host Xernona Clayton came forward to toast his turning...