Word: bobbed
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Having gone 0 for 8 with Democratic presidential candidates, political consultant Bob Shrum is exporting his golden touch as an adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On Sept. 24, Brown delivered an address that bore Shrum's fingerprints, including phrases strikingly similar to those in speeches by former clients Bill Clinton and Al Gore. And true to form, Brown's Labour Party promptly dropped in the polls...
...BOB WEINSTEIN, SAN DIEGO...
...plays is sometimes likened to torture, and Epstein concedes that it is highly challenging. According to Epstein, the shorter pieces even tend to be more mysterious than the larger ones, which are more accessible to an audience viewing them for the first time. “Bob [Scanlan] knows these pieces very intimately and was able in a certain sense to decode them for us...The audience absorbs the moment because we are doing it with understanding,” Epstein says. The audience’s comprehension of these pieces is something that remains very important to Scanlan...
...than his readership can chew (the “Invisible Men” chapter in particular feels overstuffed), but for the most part he makes now-peripheral figures like Franz Lehár and Roy Harris feel as relevant as Dmitri Shostakovich and Aaron Copland—or even Bob Dylan and Bo Diddley.According to the Observer, Ross didn’t hear his first Dylan record until he reached his 20s, so there may yet be hope for Joyce-loving English concentrators with quaintly archaic tastes in music to make some sort of a living out of their skills...
...since Steinbeck has been able to illuminate the vast and unfathomable panoramas of the American landscape so well; nor, since Conrad, to locate so adeptly the sinister madness that pervades human culture. The first film adapted from McCarthy’s work was 2000’s disappointing, Billy Bob Thorton-directed effort “All the Pretty Horses”. Consequently, one might expect that Hollywood would once again mishandle the work of one of the literary geniuses of the last century. In the hands of Joel and Ethan Coen, however, these suspicions could not land further from...