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...from Brown who is also a screenwriter and director), playing dim-witted Delmar in the Coen brothers' sly and shaggy saga of redemption on the run posed certain problems. None was more daunting than authentically conveying Delmar's belief that one of his fellow escapees from a 1930s Mississippi chain gang had been turned into a toad by backwoods sirens...
During week two I picked up the "swizzle." This is a forward vector in which the legs are repeatedly bowed in and out, apart and together, as if drawing a chain of DNA. This too I more or less mastered, while achieving some success at its inversion, the backward swizzle. I went home elated and then was tickled to find an ice-skating movie on cable called The Cutting Edge. In the movie, the Russian coach counsels his ice dancers, "Douglas, you are stem. Katia, you are petal. Together, you make flower." I was starting to feel a little floral...
Have you seen the ubiquitous TV commercial for the hotel chain where, the ad suggests, every employee is prepared to give a guest detailed strategic advice and encouragement for a forthcoming business meeting? Unlike a more traditional advertising claim--that, say, an angel flies out of a can of cleanser to banish grime with her magic wand--this hotel's claim is not inherently or obviously metaphorical. Yet it's clearly not true--a point that probably didn't even occur to the producers of the ad or 99% of its viewers. The deception is not on purpose...
...taking a flight out to Atlanta and I plan on going right away to the Chick-Fil-A... I miss it completely," he said, explaining that the chain is not the same in Boston...
...astonishing chain of events--one concussion bomb after another after another--left the soldiers in both the Gore and Bush camps dazed and bloodied, wondering when the next explosion would come. Only Bush and Gore, along with their top lawyers and strategists, seemed to have had a sense of how the week might go. Since both courts had handed down key rulings earlier on--the state supremes extending the timetable for the initial recount, the U.S. Supremes slapping that ruling back to Florida--Bush and Gore knew which courts tended to smile on their claims. On Friday night, Gore told...