Word: complex
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Many Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers were called in from their shifts and were posted around the perimeter of the apartment complex...
...since genes that didn't comply with it--didn't interact constructively--were dumped by natural selection, life came to be filled with teams of genes that played non-zero-sum games well. Larger and larger teams of genes played more and more elaborate games. In other words, more complex life forms evolved, notably including Homo sapiens. Basically, you are a large and well-played non-zero-sum game. Congratulations...
...perhaps a more striking example of his social disability is the moment when Gore broke into song with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who had just endorsed him. In Gore's defense, Kennedy kind of put him on the spot. After a meeting with senior citizens at a housing complex in Portsmouth, N.H., Kennedy spontaneously grabbed the housing director (also an Irishman) and Gore and started in on When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...broadcast networks before landing at HBO, The Sopranos is a show so good it gives TV a bad image, funnier than most sitcoms ("It'd be like What Ever Happened to Baby Janice? over there," Tony says when Pavarti/Janice offers to care for Livia) and far deeper and more complex than most "quality" dramas. And yet its greatest indictment of TV may be that there is nothing unique about the people who make the show. Chase, 50, is no wunderkind; he kicked around TV for decades, doing fine but hardly epochal work on The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away...
...most of it, turning Cedars into a movie about astonishing cinematography and fluid camera work. While the movie occasionally threatens to become too impressed with its own rapturousness (a problem that James Newton Howard's saccharine score does little to help), one has to admire Hicks' ability to communicate complex thought processes through long, wordless montages...