Word: actore
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...compare Russian life to; as far as he knows, the whole world is as gray and unpromising as the territory he traverses. There is nothing sentimental in the way little Kolya Spiridonov plays him. Like almost all the other players in The Italian, he is not a professional actor and so he seems not to be acting at all; every encounter, whether cruel or kindly, is naturalistically (and neutrally) accepted and processed by him, after which he proceeds along his way. As far as I can recall, he never cracks a winsome smile, never does anything to ingratiate himself with...
...around the exhibit hall, my picture is snapped with a cell phone. Suddenly, I appear in the middle of a 15th century Venetian ballroom scene on a computer, with a mask over my image. Valentina, an artificial intelligence hostess, greets me and invites me to Venice Chronicles' party. An actor working from the website's office directs the fantasy by giving orders, moving our images and forcing us to make conversation with each other...
...mirror properties may be more widely distributed. For example, a recent experiment conducted by Keysers and his colleagues revealed that a discrete patch of the somatosensory cortex lit up when the human subjects felt their legs brushed by a glove and when they watched a video in which an actor's legs were brushed...
...actor, you can't stay at the office an extra few hours and try and solidify your next promotion. You really can't do anything to help yourself. I got very bummed...
...Major League Soccer was announced, Real Madrid barred Beckham from playing in any more games. And team president Ramón Calderón said the English midfielder is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy because no other team wants him. "David Beckham is going to be some sort of film actor living in Hollywood," Calderón scoffed. Unfazed, Beck's wife Victoria scoped out Hollywood homes, and American sports fans contemplated something novel: buying tickets for a soccer game...