Word: cordons
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...comedy hit My Sassy Girl for a Hollywood remake by DreamWorks, was hit by a car while standing outside the popular Petit Majestic Bar. The French driver, instead of apologizing, chastised Kwok for standing in the way; then, according to the trade paper Variety, three French toughs formed a cordon to let the driver escape. The director left for Paris the next day, body bent but spirit unbroken...
This year there is no peace on Earth Day. While the nation's attention has been focused on war in the Middle East, domestic battles still rage between those who want to cordon off America's wild places and those who want to tap the oil and gas reserves that lie beneath them. Environmental groups were stoked last week by a Senate vote that killed--at least for now--George W. Bush's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but the greens are continuing to hammer Bush's environmental record. Protesters planned to don surgical...
...Around Winchell buzzed a cordon of courtiers - the famous, the has-beens and wannabe's - and their representatives, the press agents, fighting to catch the columnist's attention and get an item (a joke, a movie deal, a simple "was glimpsed confabbing with...") in his daily mix of gossip. Like a duke's dresser in the court of the Sun King, a press agent sees his client at his worst and must present him at his best. The trick was to paint a heroic portrait, of a person with plenty to hide, and sell it to a columnist...
...success in Rotterdam, though, will no doubt help him add to the some 30 candidates - including doctors, lawyers and one police chief - on his Fortuyn List. The ultranationalist Vlaams Blok in neighboring Belgium, which had the strongest showing in 2000 local elections in Antwerp, has been isolated by a cordon sanitaire agreement among other parties. Whether Fortuyn should get the same treatment is already being passionately discussed in the coming months...
...lion?s share of the thanks for that should go to the New York Police Department, who have laid down a security cordon around the Waldorf-Astoria and other midtown hotels, and manned (or womaned) it, by and large, with great good humor. Demonstrators - followers of Falun Gong have been the most prominent - have been segregated across the street, squashed into a narrow area behind barricades. The main demonstration, on Saturday, went off remarkably quietly, as the marchers were kept well away from the delegates; I had no idea that the NYPD had so many police horses...