Word: calmness
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...This is very exciting,” Seidel said with trademark calm and a beer in hand. “If the results hold up, I look forward to the real challenge we’ll have in moving the City Council forward...
...Coffee, while a white guy in dreadlocks serenaded me with an off-key rendition of “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over.” I counted 25 separate women with leggings on, and two men. I got a bubble tea to calm myself. Why are Harvard students all so contrary? Just when leggings are declared dead, over, and gone for good by every fashion magazine, Web site, and prescriptive literature pamphlet imaginable, Harvard children now decide they want to buy a pair. The last time I checked, stores don’t even sell them...
...found perfect bliss. He has, of course, been terrific in films ranging from Capote to Mission Impossible 3, but the chance to play perfect evil - a delirious combination of hubris and stupidity - does not come along every day, even for protean performers like Hoffman. Yet here he is, deadly calm and dead-pan hilarious as Andy, the meanest man in the world, in what may be (slightly more arguably) the meanest movie in the world, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead...
...very own parents (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris). Needless to say, this not exactly capering caper goes murderously awry. We quickly understand that nothing good is going to come out of this mess for Andy. He, of course, does not catch the drift toward disaster. Coolly smiling, eerily calm almost to the end, he keeps manufacturing work-arounds that, naturally, continue to make matters worse for him. In particular, he misjudges the towering and implacable rage for vengeance that comes upon his father...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try to calm these passions in person with a hastily scheduled trip to Turkey. After strong language from both Washington and London, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears to have gotten the message. He broke the government's long silence on the issue and finally vowed to shut down PKK "operations" in Iraqi territory. Turkey has agreed to consider talks with Iraqi government representatives, including, perhaps, Iraqi Kurds--but not with the PKK, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist group. Turkey may yet send troops across the border, but if communication channels...