Word: convert
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...produced disastrously bad footage his first two days on American Beauty, he's since taken easily to movies. "The joy for a director of theater going into film," he says, "is you only have to achieve something once." He still directs plays back home, but he's become a convert to film, enchanted with the ability of movie vets like Hanks and Newman to stay in character through rain, sleet or snow: "It could be 5 a.m., pissing down rain and minus 30 degrees--they've still got their fingers on the triggers. They are able to fire whenever required...
...establish a good credit rating, things like that," Javed says. Javed, a Muslim who now runs an Islamic elementary school in Broward County, insists he did not proselytize to his young employees. When Padilla, who had undoubtedly heard about Islam in prison, began asking him how to convert, Javed says he told Padilla to find a mosque...
...hard drive. But next-generation audio players like the Digisette DUO-DX E-Cassette ($189) can record songs directly from a stereo system without computer software--or, for that matter, a computer. Just pop the DUO-DX into a stereo tape deck, hit the record button and automatically convert CDs, tapes or radio tunes into MP3 files...
...Market Theater mounted its first production last spring but then, in January, the theater’s owner announced that—effective this summer—he would lease the theater’s performing space to the UpStairs on the Square restaurant, which plans to convert the floors into a replacement for UpStairs at the Pudding...
...favored the Senegalese. Led by the lightening moves of 21-year-old striker El Hadji Diouf, who was the 2001 African Footballer of the Year, the Lions stunned an uninspired French side, which was unable to capitalize on any of 9 shots on goal (Nor were they able to convert any of 10 corner kicks; the Senegalese had none...