Word: cautioned
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...place where the aurora borealis normally provides celestial beauty, Snow White's luminous apparition also signals caution. What will a new era of exploitation bring to the Arctic, one of the earth's last great uncharted regions? The vast area has long fascinated explorers, but it has just as long been the site of folly and exaggerated expectations. Over centuries, hundreds died in the doomed search for an ice-free Northwest Passage between Asia and Europe, many of them victims of ill-fated stabs at national and personal glory...
...caught on a subway surveillance cameras with the victim, and when confronted with the taped evidence, he confessed to everything. Proudly, though he did admit to some hesitation about his final murder. "As were heading to the park and talking, I kept thinking whether to kill her or take caution. But finally I decided to take a risk. I was in that mood already...
...Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) wondered at the timing. "Three weeks before election seems to be an odd time to be authorizing war." While many senators (including Kerry) parroted bogus stats supplied by Iraq "experts" on the imminent danger Saddam posed to the U.S., Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) counseled caution: "There is no victory in the destruction of one tyrant while breeding 10,000 terrorists." John McCain, a Vietnam POW for five years, voted for the war; but a few used Vietnam as a warning from history. "You're sentencing thousands of Americans to sure death," declared Rep. Pete Stark...
...sumptuous Mata Hari melodrama that measures out its many luxurious over a 2-1/2hr. running time, Lust, Caution (from a short story by the late novelist and screenwriter Eileen Chang) is in a way the perfect blending of Ang Lee's two most popular films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. Like the first, it returns the Taiwanese native to China for a tale of political intrigue; like the second, it locates the passion, melancholy and power struggles of two complicated people. In a new book that includes the movie's original story, script and comments...
...Though Lust, Caution won the top prize at Venice, it has not been so widely admired by critics as Lee's other famous films. But it should be, for it mixes daring and delicacy with a master's touch. Toronto has got off to a good start with Lee's elegant, erotic movie - his own Brokeback Bedroom...