Word: bucked
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...with the specter of $50-a-barrel oil prices throttling the global economic recovery in its swaddling clothes. But by Wednesday the rest of the Arab world was quietly making it known that they're not about to let a policy disagreement get in the way of a good buck...
...least dry-witted and unsentimental in Morris' typical style. There was the multi-screen device the producers used before the Film Editing Oscar, which actually gave us an idea what film editors do. And there was the inspired idea of having people like David Mamet and Buck Henry write introductions to some of the awards - the fewer clunky jokes misread off the TelePrompTer, the better. (Sorry, Bruce Vilanch, but the statute of limitations on Anna Nicole Smith gags expired about five years...
...last morning drifting through Guangzhou's famous Qingping market. If it has legs, wings, claws, brains, scales, fur, fins, gills or lungs, it's aggressively hawked here. This is Guangzhou in miniature: full of variety, full of extremes, always willing to do what it takes to make a fast buck. Seat belts? We don't need no stinkin' seat belts...
...Heartbreaker inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Whenever enshrinements of geriatric rockers are announced, we think: who cares? Losers TOMMY SUHARTO Former strongman's son goes on trial in Indonesia for murdering a judge. One can only pity the jurist who gets to hear this case PETER BUCK R.E.M. star charged for drunkenness on a plane. This will actually increase his likelihood of making the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame STEVEN SEAGAL Butt-kicking Buddhist sued for $60 million by a former partner. Unfairly, not a penny of that will go to people who sat through Under...
...they covered. There were fewer ballplayers too: at the end of that sweet-smell year 1957, after a combined 130 seasons in New York, the Dodgers and Giants both left town. (I'm pleased to say that Phyllis Adams and Davie Lerner are still in full flourish; and though Buck Zuckerman has left this earth for parties unknown, his son has made a nice name for himself: Buck Henry...