Word: circuitousness
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Still, with one network set after another looking like the sales floor of a Circuit City, it seemed as though the networks were trying to buy gravitas with high-tech gadgets. The screens dripped data--a list of states running down the side, graphics spanning the bottom, a "virtual Senate" materializing on CNN. Even the pundits metastasized: the networks had banks upon banks of them, lined up like operators at a telethon. Look at all this information! the screens screamed. Look at all this analysis! Never mind that we're sitting on the news...
...that poll, 59% said they didn't think she was qualified to be Vice President - a view shared by many mandarins of the GOP. But the enthusiasm she briefly generated made gaming Palin's next move a popular sport. Will she join the big-money speaker's circuit? Become, as Tina Fey joked, the "white Oprah"? Run for Senate? Run for President in 2012 as the new face of a reinvented Republican Party...
...last year. Johnson & Johnson's (79% equities) and Exxon's (75%) funds have also been bruised. But the pension pain may be most acute for smaller outfits, some of whose obligations amount to more than 100% of their market capitalization. That category includes companies like Circuit City, whose obligation now amounts to 336% of its market capitalization, OfficeMax (271%) and Goodyear...
...famous for. The Westminster piece depicts a child in a red, hooded sweatshirt on a ladder painting the slogan "One Nation Under CCTV" in large letters, as a U.S.-style police officer with a camera and a dog stand nearby. CCTV is Britain's system of closed-circuit public surveillance cameras. Ironically, Banksy completed the work with an actual CCTV camera overhead. (See pictures of Banksy's secret art show...
...short years ago - let's call them the Little Miss Sunshine years - things were looking up in the world of independent films. New titles debuted at Sundance and walked away with multimillion dollar theatrical deals. But as the number of films flooding the art house circuit spiked, audiences have sagged and theaters themselves have become more scarce. Declining box office receipts have resulted in a subdued festival marketplace, where lucrative acquisitions seem to be a thing of the past. For every art-house blockbuster like Juno (which took in $229 million globally) or big-ticket festival purchase like Hamlet...