Word: beastly
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Starring as Sampson the lion – the unimaginatively-named leader of a band of quirky New York City Zoo animals who try to rescue Sampson’s runaway son (Greg Cipes)—Sutherland brings a level of realism to the beast he portrays that no other actor in the film can attain. This is largely because the timbre of his voice enlivens his feline alter-ego, while most everyone else manipulates his/her accent to the point of incomprehensibility...
...Broadway audience, and the influx of out-of-towners has meant hit shows that once would have closed after a successful season or two now rival the Empire State Building as New York City fixtures. Phantom of the Opera has been playing for 18 years; Beauty and the Beast for 12; Rent for 10. Les Misérables, which closed after a 16-year run (third longest in Broadway history), has been gone for just three years--and it's already planning a return engagement in the fall...
That is what scientists call a feedback loop, and it's a nasty one, since once you uncap the Arctic Ocean, you unleash another beast: the comparatively warm layer of water about 600 ft. deep that circulates in and out of the Atlantic. "Remove the ice," says Woods Hole's Curry, "and the water starts talking to the atmosphere, releasing its heat. This is not a good thing...
...needed was to break the infernal cycle of the "clash of civilizations," à la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short, rarely have the famous words of Blaise Pascal rung more true: "He who would act the angel becomes the beast." What begins as a noble moral intention to bring down a tyrant becomes a political disaster and a gigantic step backward in the long, necessary war against fascislamism. A field of ruins...
...products that fill Wu Jingqing's shopping cart are made in China. But not all of them. In the DVD and CD sections, Wu looks for a children's movie for her 6-year-old. This is the real thing she's buying?a DVD of Beauty and the Beast priced at $1.85 that is absolutely, positively not one of the pirated versions for which China is infamous. "I could maybe find one on the street somewhere for five or six renminbi (about 67?)," Wu says, "but I know the quality here is good, and the price still...