Word: attractions
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...Trevor Nunn?s ?Hamlet?,? one wrote. ?In forty years? time you will be able to tell the grandchildren that you saw Ben Whishaw?s first great role.? In black garb, with a thin white face, his crimson lips the only color in his array, Whishaw does attract attention. He gets vamped by every woman from his flirtatious mom to Ophelia (Samantha Whittaker), dressed in schoolgirl plaids and played as a sexually precocious teeny-bopper who needs Hamlet as much as he needs his own onanistic misery. He stretches in his chair like a Catalan death puppet, and often holds...
...museum envisioned by Wilder, a descendant of slaves, will unabashedly be a museum about the brutal merchandising of human beings. The Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which cost $110 million to build and hopes to attract 250,000 visitors each year, has wider ambitions. Or looked at another way, it's more circumspect about its approach to a difficult subject. Even the center's name sidesteps the loaded word slavery. By taking the Underground Railroad as its focus, the center gets to emphasize biracial resistance, not racial victimization, a rare triumph of black and white cooperation in those days...
...their success is good for the sport of beach volleyball, which is gaining in popularity with each Olympic appearance. And now, with the Olympic gold and bronze in the hands of Americans, the sport may attract more younger players that could help Americans remain on the podium in Beijing and beyond...
...Frank has calculated the cost to the ranchers for each lion on their property, including the guards' pay, the dogs, the extra fencing and the inevitable loss of some livestock: it comes to $350 a year per lion. On its property, Mugie has 10 lions, which have begun to attract tourists, as Frank hoped. If the big cats bring tourist dollars to Mugie Ranch, then both humans and lions come out ahead...
Instead, key moments in the campaign tend to attract the general public’s interest, Patterson said, listing January’s Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries—and the summer conventions...