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...just wanted to get in it so much,” Farkes says. “I even would swing a little bit on my own, just one-hand swings you know? But I was just trying to do everything I could to avoid a setback...
Similarly McEwan tries to avoid any need to flesh out Theo’s character by implying that his real self is found in his music. But this too fails in a puzzlingly flat description of one of his band’s rehearsals. Even Baxter is dull in the peril he presents. He has little power over the Perownes and is too erratic and crudely drawn to seem menacing as opposed to merely unpleasant. Perowne is solid if not especially likable but does not provide enough of a solid center to forgive the weak sketches that surround...
...character Dwight (Clive Owen) snaps this demand halfway through Frank Miller’s Sin City, preparing for the need to avoid bullets, outrun the police, and carry a whole lot of bodies. What he gets, though, is a tired jalopy with a tiny boot and a near-empty gas tank...
...what should opposing pitchers avoid throwing...
...only a freshman, Rachel has already begun to worry about crafting a perfect Harvard application. With three older siblings who went here, parents who are house masters, a dad who’s a professor, and a bedroom right over the Dunster dining hall, it would be hard to avoid getting stressed out by the college admissions process. For her, the pressure started in first grade, when her sister applied. Living in Dunster doesn’t always make having stellar grades and extracurriculars easy, she says, since “being at Dunster is equivalent to three extracurriculars because...