Word: boxful
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...press who cover it once would have treated as an unmissable cinematic moment - a pairing of two of the greatest actors of their generation - is instead being greeted around town with a shrug. "It's like Ali and Frazier are about to fight," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracking firm Media By Numbers. "And people are weirdly indifferent...
Scot case was not happy. Vice president of the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice, Case last year sent his researchers into a big-box retail store to evaluate the green advertising claims of some of the products on its shelves. The results were startling: of the 1,018 products TerraChoice surveyed, all but one failed to live up fully to their green boasts. Words like nontoxic were used in meaninglessly vague ways. Terms like Energy Star certified were in fact not backed up by certification...
...takes of a scene, trying out different runs; here he flits among the artworks, making great jokes, most of which I have to promise not to print since they're about religious paintings and he's an atheist who likes to offend without hurting box-office receipts. "It's more amazing to me that a man walked around and said that stuff," he says, looking at a painting of Jesus Christ. "There's nothing more amazing than human kindness. You don't have to say later, 'Oh, probably half...
...novel. The Coens' entente with genre conventions earned Oscars for Best Picture, Screenplay and Supporting Actor (for Javier Bardem as the pursuer). Those mulish brothers had proved they knew how to play a game appreciated by the film establishment and the audience; No Country was by far their biggest box-office success...
Grimm made a run when he was about 30 yards from goal before cutting across the box to blast the ball with his left foot into the goal...