Word: barely
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...walls of Judith H. Kidd’s new office in University Hall are bare...
...Calendar Girls (out in the U.K. this week, the rest of Europe soon after) is a celebration of mature beauty with a giddy playfulness usually reserved for twentysomething romantic comedies. We don't know what director Nigel Cole said to convince some of Britain's most beloved actresses to bare all, but he didn't just want them for their bodies. Helen Mirren is superb as Chris, the brains behind the project. In a turnaround from her reserved roles in Gosford Park and Last Orders, she's wickedly witty and absolutely radiant. As her more grounded best friend Annie, Julie...
...cost-effective strategy is to nominate either your cellular or your land-line service as your main communications link. Load it with the monthly minutes you need at the best possible price while subscribing to a bare-bones plan for your little-used secondary phone. If your land line is your primary phone, you can get a basic cell-phone plan from T-Mobile for $19.99 a month, including a free phone. That will give you 60 minutes to use anytime, plus 500 weekend and nighttime minutes. Be careful, however, not to underestimate how often you use a cell phone...
...large as this one, in which no true front runner has yet emerged to marshal the party's institutional forces. Dean's outsider appeal has made all the other first-tier contenders blend into button-down sameness. Campaign manager Joe Trippi, 47, a veteran of six presidential races whose bare-knuckled style matches his candidate's, argues that the early focus on one upstart--which usually doesn't happen until January--has created "the strongest insurgency in the history of politics." Trippi also argues that the converse is true: "Whoever becomes the Washington establishment candidate will by default...
...Bangkok 8 is set in Bangkok is an understatement: it is suffused with the cooking smells, mired in the traffic jams and entangled in the bare limbs of the sex workers of Bangkok. Not that the novel is slow going. Bangkok 8 goes from 0 to 60 in about 10 pages, where 60 is a cop dying after he gets bitten by a cobra. Bitten in the eyeball. By a cobra that's high on meth...