Word: busful
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...exports indebted to the director, Antonio Banderas. From then on, "my main motivation to become an actress was to work with Pedro," Cruz says. "I was kind of obsessed about it." In 1997, at 22, she got her wish, playing a prostitute loudly giving birth on a Madrid city bus in Live Flesh. Then the director, whose films are populated by heroic transvestites and lovable hookers, cast her in another memorable maternity part in All About My Mother, in 1999, this time as a pregnant, HIV-positive...
...societies are having tailgates then instead of at Harvard.Marks said that the Yale College Masters’ decision to no longer subsidize transportation to Cambridge has reduced campus enthusiasm for The Game, already dampened by news of Harvard’s new stricter alcohol policies. A bus service being organized by Elis offers a $60 round-trip ticket directly to Cambridge. Last year, sold-out Undergraduate Council shuttles to Yale were $30 round-trip, which over 1500 students purchased.Francisco H. Liquado, who is organizing the Yale shuttles, said that between 300 and 350 students have already purchased tickets to Harvard...
...strangers. Crash won the Best Picture Oscar for a story of multicultural Angelenos brought into conflict by circumstance. This year Babel has Oscar buzz for spinning a wider web: an American couple vacationing in Morocco; the goatherd boy who, testing a new rifle by firing it at the tourists' bus, hits the wife; the couple's nanny, who takes their children on a disastrous day trip to Mexico; and the deaf Japanese girl improbably connected to all these events. TV dramas like Lost and Heroes have global ensembles whose lives are intertwined before they ever meet. One man's winning...
...Babel trots out favorite lefty stereotypes, from Third World victims to ugly Americans (and, to be fair, other ugly Westerners). The Moroccan kid who uses a bus for target practice comes off as a poor naďf--if he were American, Hollywood would probably treat him as an example of our sick, gun-crazy society. The American couple are the kind of self-absorbed Yanks who jet off to a poor country to be "alone" among thousands of peasants, guarded and distanced from their surroundings, taking their Cokes without ice so as not to drink the water...
With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, students active in the Dems organization jump at the opportunity to help out with various campaigns—even if it means tedious phone calls without any compensation or an uncomfortable bus ride out to Rhode Island with only HUDS bagels for sustenance...