Word: appealling
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...lingering takes and a paucity of dialogue and action. Critics hailed him as the "hero of the highbrows." But average moviegoers were so confused they once reputedly chased him at the Cannes Film Festival, demanding plot explanations. Antonioni was content with his brainy reputation--and his lack of mass appeal. "I could never do something against my tastes to meet the public," he once told a reporter. "I do it for an ideal spectator who is very like this director...
...Francisco 49ers from a long-suffering franchise with a 2-14 record into the winningest team of the '80s, with three Super Bowls in seven years. Before Walsh, conventional wisdom held that NFL coaches needed a loud voice and an iron fist. Walsh was just as likely to appeal to his players' intellect. With his silver hair and professorial mien, he was nicknamed "the Genius." His main invention was the West Coast offense, a now widely practiced style of play that eschewed long passes and runs up the middle in favor of short, surgical passes that dissected countless defenses. Equally...
...local Drummond Coal Company bore responsibility for the murders of three union leaders who represented workers at its Colombian mine - the world's largest open pit mine. The widows lost their suit last week. But the case, and issues at the heart of it, are far from resolved: an appeal is all but certain, and the courts will surely hear more lawsuits trying to use a once obscure, colonial-era law to hold U.S. companies liable for human rights abuses committed abroad...
...Back in November 2001, Bush created military tribunals to determine the fate of Guantanamo detainees. The tribunals lacked even the basics of due process - rules to ensure the reliability of evidence, for example, or the ability to appeal a decision - let alone the right to habeas corpus. Congress reacted to the tribunals by doing absolutely nothing. It didn't approve or disapprove them, but left Bush free to romp over the legal rights of anyone suspected of terrorism. As Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the head of its Center for Health and Homeland Security...
...More troubling, however, was losing the benevolent criminal activity associated with my early teenage years. Bumming cigarettes lost its appeal once my friends and I could legally purchase them; standby activities like sneaking out and skinny-dipping went extinct as kids went off to science camps and spent their summers abroad...