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KIDMAN: Accents you can at least practice with real words. Learning a language that doesn't exist is just learning sounds, and that's a very hard thing to do, as I found out. I would drill it over and over again, but it's very hard to do without any reference. It's not like you can go, "This is the word for table." But then you couldn't speak gibberish either and say, "Ku! I just spoke some Ku!" because there were other actors speaking it, so it had to have a sound that was recognizable...
...four-day summer seminar, jam-packed from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. with such activities as Cheeramids and Styles in Strutting and Meetings with Dorm Mom. This is not, however, just a cheerleaders' camp. There are separate schedules for song leaders and band-letter girls, for drill teams, tall flags and twirleens...
...well-known consultant and economist at the University of Michigan, who says these "aspirational poor"--people earning less than $2 a day who make up three-fourths of the world's population--could contribute an additional $13 trillion in annual sales to the global economy, if only companies would drill deep enough to reach them. "Nearly 4 billion people have been under the radar screens of large companies up until now," says Prahalad, author of the book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. "The moment you create the opportunity for them to consume, you create the world...
Brent leaves a wheelchair-bound worker in the stairwell during a fire drill (“We’ll come back for her later”) and makes his secretary cry in a practical joke gone awry. He’s joined by office sycophant Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook), who sticks to the rules and sells himself to the ladies: “I am caring, and sensitive. Isn’t ‘Schindler’s List’ a brilliant film?” The show was a nuanced, naturalistic firecracker of a comedy, where...
...false alarm of mutual assured destruction (MAD) and is horrified to see citizens doing anything but taking cover, instead fulfilling their long-latent fantasies. The story catalogs beautiful glimpses of life in an Edenic state of anticipated death, recurring with each subsequent government MAD “fire drill.” But the scenes of the president are too ridiculous to operate as sharp satire; the character is too goofy and the story mocking in ways too unoriginal to be admitted...