Word: tromped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the fact there's too much computer animation and not enough Ewan McGregor and Samuel L. Jackson. We're a little leery of Liam Neeson's hair (not digitized; they're real extensions). We know it can't be all bad, but we don't want to tromp all the way to the multi-prestidigiplex to get squeezed out by a bunch of geeks dressed up like Boba Fett -- on a Thursday afternoon in June. Oh, most of us will see it eventually, although the early intimidation factor could make "Titanic" a tough tub to catch. The betting here...
According to Hooper Professor of Geology PaulF. Hoffman, Shaw is currently working withProfessor of Geophysics Jeroen Tromp to constructa computer model of the rock around the LosAngeles basin...
...Saving Private Ryan. Critics have been promulgating the notion, which Spielberg in interviews appears to encourage, that the film has redeemed selfish baby boomers by forcing them to acknowledge their parents' sacrifices--as if baby boomers hadn't grown up reading Sgt. Rock and listening to the fakey tromp-tromp sound effect of marching Nazi soldiers on all those episodes of The World at War. But people these days seem to think of Spielberg less as a filmmaker than as a healer of deep historical wounds (don't forget that he has already helped us come to terms with...
Despite zipped coats and plenty of frenzied spinning on puddle-ice, he calls after one kid here, another there, gathering them up so they can tromp off to their afternoon activities...
...distinct periods of life: spring to Commencement and Commencement to winter. During the first "brown" period, Harvard spends thousands of dollars to improve the landscape for alums. All the grass you see now, in the second "green" period, is left over from the first period. So stomp and tromp--think about all the green that went into the green...