Word: agee
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...Pelham 1 2 3?" It finished somewhat below industry expectations. But a Sunday-afternoon quarterback has a few explanations. 1. While Washington and Travolta are certified stars who can get movies greenlit, they don't often make blockbusters. 2. The audience for R-rated films, necessarily limited by age, was still flocking to The Hangover. 3. Pelham is a remake of a 1974 thriller that didn't exactly acquire legendary status. 4. Though the new picture was promoted as an action thriller, it's basically two guys talking tensely on the phone - in other words, a TV movie - and without...
...transformation was hardly unique. Aida Begic, 33, a director whose first feature film Snow has won numerous awards, says her teen years in besieged Sarajevo shook her to the core. "Every minute you wonder what will happen after you die," she says. "You cannot postpone those questions until old age." After years of dabbling in Buddhism and Judaism, and a phase as a punk rocker with blue hair, four years ago Begic adopted the Islamic head scarf and long dress and became deeply religious. She says the decision "caused an earthquake" among her family and friends, who are still uncomfortable...
...their GDP to creative industries than those in the U.S., Canada, France and Australia, making it more susceptible to the losses from file sharing. An interim report, released in January, put forward proposals for a Rights Agency to help deal with the difficulties of copyright in the digital age and set out a plan for illegal downloading similar to the French laws. ISPs, said the interim report, would be required to "notify alleged infringers of rights ... that their conduct is unlawful." Internet providers would also have to "collect anonymised information on serious repeat infringers ... to be made available to rights...
...proposal asking that surfing be allowed at four of the city's beaches during the traditional beach season, Memorial Day to Labor Day, as well as year-round at a fifth beach. Officials are still sorting through various details of regulating surfing, such as whether there should be an age requirement and what, exactly, signs along beaches should say (for example, "Surf at Your Own Risk...
...explains: "Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.") He took up with various Polynesian women, and his freewheeling ways made the local missionaries livid. Less than two years after his arrival, he was dead at the age of 54 from self-induced dosages of morphine to dull the pain of his virulent syphilis. Practically unknown and penniless during much of his life, Gauguin is now considered the most important post-Impressionist painter who ever lived...