Word: abyss
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...Full Monty and receives Jennifer Lopez. The throne hasn't seen that much booty since the days of Sir Francis Drake ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The Terminator gets a California ski run named after him. Modeled after his career, it's a steep downward slope ending in a bottomless abyss "MR. McCHINA" U.K. entrepreneur beats McDonalds and is allowed to sell Chinese fast food as McChina. McGizzard Happy Meals come with a cheap toy Losers FABIEN BARTHEZ Sieve-like French goaltender may get butter brand named after him. The money will be handy when Man U subs him with Posh Spice SANTA...
...that was long enough to get hooked. Cambodia?its war, its people, its tragedy?became an obsession. After a year of mandatory military service back home in France, he returned to Cambodia in 1975, just as the Khmer Rouge swept to power and plunged the country into the abyss. For the next 25 years Neveu would return to photograph whenever he could...
...kind of headline one might expect as we concluded a second day of bombing against Afghanistan. But instead of showing a picture of a U.S. fighter ascending from an aircraft carrier or the lit-up nighttime sky of Afghanistan, the accompanying photograph showed a rescue worker peering into the abyss of the site of the World Trade Center. The glaring contrast between the headline and picture created a chilling message: “Yes, we too are now perpetrators of violence, but remember why we must do it! Don’t forget how angry you felt last month...
...Consumers have been keeping this economy out of the depths all year - their virtual disappearance in the week or two after Sept. 11 has sent the whole thing tumbling toward the abyss. And Greenspan knows that while his cuts so far haven?t helped discernibly, they haven?t hurt either - if only because after 14 years at the helm, the sight of a fighting Fed has considerable power to comfort businesses and consumers alike...
Hong kong film people have a well-earned rep as the hardest workers in show biz. In the mid-'80s Chow Yun-fat made a dozen pictures a year. But now that the local industry is crawling out of a post-'97 abyss, in which Hollywood films ruled while the home team slumped, it's almost unfair that one man should be hogging the box-office receipts and the critical laurels...