Word: box
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...Brown's Sean Hurley has been sent to the box for hitting from behind, and we have another Harvard power-play opportunity...
...also, of course, a cost-effective strategy for Hollywood. As paychecks for actors get higher every year, studios are putting more effort into developing films like 300, which proved that gorgeous digital effects can draw box-office numbers as big as any movie star. "It's not just the actors but also elaborate sets, huge [production] crews and worldwide marketing campaigns," says Vivek Cuoto, executive director of Hong Kong-based consultancy Media Partners Asia...
...reach young voters but because that's what older voters like to hear. Traditionally, the older you are, the more likely you are to vote; the younger you are, the less likely. For generations, older voters have been making decisions for young people, who stayed away from the ballot box...
...issues and adversaries were much different from today's, but the dispute was perhaps more rancorous. In the 1970s, the stucco box on Sunset Boulevard that housed the Comedy Store was a nightly practice field for up-and-coming comics who would troop onstage to hone their material, try out new jokes?and hope to get seen by the agents, managers and talent scouts who were regular clubgoers. The club's owner, Mitzi Shore?a pretty, petite brunet with a whiny, Roseanne-like voice who had inherited the Comedy Store in a divorce from comedian Sammy Shore?viewed the place...
...pamphlets from "soothsayers." But she maintains that no "historical" documents, such as correspondence with Prince Philip, were ever shredded: "My conscience is clear on what I destroyed." Still, prying open the wooden chest - and potentially unleashing those letters onto the world - may have been akin to opening Pandora's box. For a mythic figure like Diana, it's a fitting comparison...