Each book is 1 ft tall, 0.5 ft wide, and 0.1 ft thick. The bin is 5 feet wide, 2 feet tall, and 3 feet deep. Based on volume only, about how many books will fit in the bin? Mr. Black spent $9.20 to buy a total ...
“Apollo 13” is based on the 1970 moon landing mission. Astronauts Jack Swigert and James Lovell each said close versions of the famous line,but they expressed it in past tense. The revised line was used earlier in pop culture, but Tom Hanks’ delivery in “Apollo 13” as the imperiled...
Anthony Hopkins, the Welsh Shakespearean actor, was cast against type as the sicko murderer in “The Silence of the Lambs.” There’s an odd allure in the clash between Dr. Hannibal Lector’s taste for refined gourmet food and also, for cannibalism. In the scene when Lector tries to intim...
Is it possible to beat high blood pressure without drugs? The answer is “yes”, according to the researchers at Johns Hopkins and three other medical centers. After a study of 800 persons with high blood pressure, they found that after 6 months, those devoted to weight-loss exercise and ...
Hold a medicine ball between both hands and extend it directly overhead. Step forward with your right foot, planting it a couple feet in front of your left foot. Engage your core to keep your torso tall and bend both knees, lowering your left knee toward the floor. ...
deserve at least a moment of your attention. Take time to introduce yourself to them and make some comment, such as, “The decorations are most unusual, aren’t they?” Then they’ll remember you as “that charming Hazel Hopkins” instead of “that tall thin girl who didn’t look at ...
1049 84 Charing Cross Road – Anthony Hopkins October 1050 Dark Corner, The October 1051 First Time, The October 1052 Puss N Boots October 1053 Down Terrace October 1054 Brake October 1055 Mouse That Roared, The – Peter Sellers October 1056 At Any Price – Dennis Quaid October 1057 Sound of...
- Character: Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin - Actor: Al Jolson This famous line inaugurates the moment in film history when “talkies” took over. It was the first film with a synchronized soundtrack that included both dialogue and singing. “The Jazz Singer” is just as famous for sequences ...
- Character: Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin - Actor: Al Jolson This famous line inaugurates the moment in film history when “talkies” took over. It was the first film with a synchronized soundtrack that included both dialogue and singing. “The Jazz Singer” is just as famous for sequences ...
Gibbons had also been listening to a lot of Lightnin’ Hopkins, who would build an entire song around a scrappy guitar riff. The words and the riff came together like a gutty old blues song. “Twenty-five lighters on my dresser, yessir, I gotsta get paid”—it might have been a line...