Word: dozen
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...young men waiting for entry on most weekend nights are a giveaway. And inside it's all action. On a recent Saturday night, hundreds of men milled around the outer rooms drinking and flirting. Around the tennis-court-sized dance floor an Eminem concert looped on half a dozen video screens, and pulsing lasers and strobe lights flashed over the writhing, sweating bodies. It has been like this every weekend for the past couple of years, the club's manager says...
...myth that any actor will drop whatever they're doing and work with me. Nothing could be further from the truth. Actors have passed because the money was not enough or they didn't like the script or for personal reasons. [But] you could turn down my movies a dozen times, and if I have a part that's good for you, I'll always offer it to you and hope for the best...
...author of Apollo 13 (which served as the basis for the 1995 movie) and the author of five other books, including the upcoming Simplexity, about the beautiful simplicity and complexity of everything around us, Kluger has been with TIME for 12 years and has written more than two dozen cover stories...
...century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get—this is what too many of you seem to forget. “Coleridge...
...Communist party cadres who control China's airwaves doubtless hoped the story would end there. But a video clip of Hu's Dec. 28 outburst was soon uploaded to the Chinese video-sharing site Tudou.com, as well as a dozen other sites, and instantly became one of the most downloaded Chinese videos on the Internet, with 650,000 views on Tudou alone. (The clip was removed within hours from locally hosted websites, although it is still available on YouTube...