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What is most astounding and eye-catching, however, is that the eight Harvard rowers had only trained together as a group for three weeks. Besides two earlier races, the fall season had been void of the consistent competition which the team encounters during the spring season...
...still remember vividly the dim-lit drama of those early days, when we were just starting to plan--long before acting--and when our ideas were like the vapors and mists in the opening pages of the Book of Genesis: 'without form and void,' as the Good Book says, surrounded by all that darkness which lay 'upon the face of the deep.' 'We will have to raise,' someone said, 'at least $3 billion.' 'There will have to be,' said another, 'an irresistible, scintillating plan--written, illustrated, printed and distributed within four months, so that we can launch the campaign...
...very beginning of The Ice Storm, Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire), a 16-year-old who attends boarding school in New York and reads Dostoevsky and the Fantastic Four, announces that families are like voids from which you can leave but must always return. At that moment, he's on his way back into the void, heading to his Connecticut home to spend Thanksgiving, 1973, with his family...
...this world of restrained emotions, reduced to tears. For a while it seems as if the ice storm--which the camera dwells upon in the second half of the film--will transform the lives of the Hood family. Instead, it leaves them at the very bottom of the familial void to which they must belong...
...street K is most often diverted in liquid form from vets' offices or medical suppliers. Dealers dry the liquid (usually by cooking it) and grind the residue into powder. K causes hallucinations because it blocks chemical messengers in the brain that carry sensory input; the brain fills the resulting void with visions, dreams, memories, whatever. Sara says that once, after snorting several "bumps" of K, she thought other kids on the dance floor had been decapitated. "But I mean, I really knew they had heads. I was just, like, 'This is so weird...