Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million broody hunks; Pitt has the primacy but not the patent. Paltrow could be something different, maybe unique. She could bring elegance, lightness of touch, pedigree--what used to be called class--back to American movie acting. She has shown glimpses of it in earlier work, as Pitt's anxious wife in Seven and as the ultimate prom date in The Pallbearer. But now Paltrow has a movie all her own. She plays, beautifully, the title role in Douglas McGrath's sweet new take on the Jane Austen novel Emma...
...office, an intern who'd been around for a few months already pulled me aside and said, "you'll probably really like your job, but what really makes the experience worthwhile is the intern...Culture." Apparently, flocking from all over the country, the 200 interns in the program are anxious to mix and mingle with fellow aspiring politicians and often stretch their workdays into long nights of play, usually at a trendy area pub. On weekends, they clamor into tour buses to see the monuments and museums. Cliques form. You're either...
...horrific treatment caught on camera and widely publicized have created a boom in the nanny-surveillance industry. Babywatch Corp., a company based in Spring Valley, New York, has sold $5,000 hidden-camera setups to entrepreneurs in 20 cities, who rent them out for about $200 a pop. Other anxious parents are buying their own devices. Quark International, a New York-based manufacturer, has seen its sales of nannycams triple during the past few years. The Counter Spy Shop in Manhattan sells about a dozen a month, including teddy bears at $649 each, as well as those in the form...
...find out why, Gwynne and Gurwin gathered information from sources in the U.S., the Middle East, Russia and other European nations. "We went to extraordinary lengths to find out everything we could," says Gurwin. One of the best sources was Nordex president Grigori Loutchansky, says Gwynne, "because he's anxious to clear his name...
...aliens. They control the screen. And when they do it well, they control us, as cunningly as an ID4 alien running a mind scan on a puny Earthling. Only after the lights come up can we shake off the fear, say, "It's only a movie," and steal an anxious glance at the night...