Word: compaction
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...Travolta’s last performance as Chili Palmer was in a compact movie about a gangster from Brooklyn making his mark on Hollywood. In this sprawling sequel, Palmer decides to break into the music business by producing hot starlet Linda Moon (Milian). Unfortunately, she is under contract to unscrupulous sleazeballs played by Harvey Keitel and Vince Vaughn. In the process of becoming Moon’s manager, hilarity ensues. Or at least, it is supposed...
...reform that we are introducing at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum tonight at 6 p.m. Our plan would shift control of congressional redistricting into the hands of a nonpartisan commission independent from the state legislature. We layout several guidelines that commissioners should follow: every district should be as compact as possible, district lines should coincide as much as possible with municipal, neighborhood, and physical boundaries, as well as with state legislative district lines. States, of course, vary in their institutional make-up, and we do not expect our plan to be one-size-fits-all. We do, however, hope...
...Good things happen when soft and hard power - carrot and stick - are used in tandem. That's what some 50 foreign-policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic proposed last week. They fashioned a "compact" of compromises on the most recalcitrant issues dividing the U.S. and the E.U., starting with Iraq. As part of a grand barter, the Europeans would step up training, increase spending on reconstruction from $300 million to $1 billion for 2005, and write off half the country's debt; in exchange, the U.S. would give Europe a role in determining Iraq's economic and political...
...Katie Monticchio ’06 will be premiering original arrangements of “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” and “Always True to You In My Fashion,” respectively. Another debut at the well-attended annual concert will be a new compact disc of Pitches’ a cappella from the past year. Tumolo describes the CD as “a 30th anniversary tribute, featuring Pitch classics as well as new arrangements.” Songs rendered a cappella on the CD include “My Funny Valentine?...
...Archigram drawings and watercolors were musings about what the postindustrial city had become, a compact node of entertainments and spectacles in a society of people in motion. That's the spirit of Peter Cook's Instant City in a Field Long Elevation from 1969, a deadpan fantasia of a city with all its diversions that could be lowered from the air by balloon. The philosopher Francis Bacon once wrote that "the monuments of wit survive the monuments of power." If that's true, then these whimsical flights of fancy will still be around long after some of the uglier skylines...