Word: usual
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...Chris, meanwhile, deals with the consequences of inadvertent infection. She hooks up with Rob, a cute guy who, as she discovers in the act of coitus, has a second mouth that utters his deepest thoughts. "It's impossible?nnn?never make it out alive." While enduring the usual high school dramas - a pregnancy scare as he avoids her in the hallways - things get worse when she discovers she can shed her entire epidermis like a snake. So, outed at the school, she flees to the woods with Rob, who has disclosed his true feelings for her. Almost literally ensconced...
...think it’s shaping up to be pretty much politics as usual,” he said...
...Ball,” is sorely blemished by this enigmatically frayed thriller. Unlike “Finding Neverland,” “Stay” lacks a coherent storyline with relatable characters, failing to conjure the same substantial emotion. McGregor’s performance is, as usual, solid. His portrayal of the confused and increasingly terrified Dr. Foster is more than believable. In spite of this, the film’s writer, David Benioff (“25th Hour”), leaves little room for McGregor to delve into his character’s idiosyncrasies. Perhaps the film?...
...quiet almost-ignorance that accompanied one of the worst spells of Harvard football in recent memory, two straight losses—one badly, one to an Ivy doormat—before the recent righting of the ship. Where was the dismay, the outrage, but mostly the surprise? Besides the usual complaints over lack of student fan participation, it struck me as the symptom of either a disappointing lack of context, the assumption among many students that at such an elite academic institution, the team should be bad, blind to the fact that for the past five or so years, Harvard...
...lyrics, as usual, straddle the line between abstract imagery, Shakespearean references (at one point mentioning “the beast with two backs”) and intricate self-aggrandizing wordplay; if anyone can “eat a rapper for lunch and spit out the chain,” it’s the metal-faced supervillain...