Word: blunts
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Transferred to a conflict with a representative of Luxembourg over (oddly anachronistic—a slingshot?) trivialities, the video makes its point loud and clear without causing blunt force trauma from hammering it home...
...once in his career, Simon had been fired for gushing. “Well,” he muses, “it didn’t brand me for life.”IN THE LINE OF FIREYet as often as he has been on the blunt end of a pen, Simon is no stranger to sharp criticism. He recalls performing Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever” for a group of soldiers while he was a student at Harvard. Simon’s director individually circled the room, telling the actresses...
...bathtub full of candy!"), says it was hard to convince fashion pros that the show would take the subject seriously. One of those who did was Tim Gunn, chair of the fashion-design department at New York City's Parsons School of Design and the cast's blunt, professorial mentor. "When they called," he says, "I thought, How are you going to cheapen this industry? We have enough problems without this." Instead, the show-co-produced by the team behind Project Greenlight, a savvy look at moviemaking-scored an Emmy nomination. "I think people wanted to see talent in reality...
...felony money laundering indictments means the case will likely drag on into next year, a ruling that will make it difficult for DeLay to reclaim his job before it?s given to someone else. Many Congressional Republicans are unhappy with the temporary arrangement that has Missouri?s Roy Blunt acting as Majority Leader and are concerned about the ever-growing shadow of the Justice Department investigation of Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist connected to DeLay...
...corruption charges the onetime leader of South Africa's Moral Regeneration Movement faces in a separate trial. But for many in the ruling African National Congress, Zuma's fall from grace is viewed not as a tale of personal failings, but instead as the workings of a conspiracy to blunt the grassroots left-wing challenge for the leadership of which the former Deputy President had been a champion...