Word: effect
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...unfortunate side-effect of emphasizing explosions is that the plot suffers. Even movies which intend to ignite spirited debate about freedom and tolerance in American society end up being as profound as a Hallmark-Hall-of-Fame production. The Siege and American History X are as heavy-handed as a textbook for seventh-grade civics class...
...helped that DeLay was considered one of the best vote counters Congress had ever seen. Being an effective whip means knowing intuitively in which direction every member is leaning on every critical vote--and what it will take to get their support. Sometimes courtliness is called for, other times thinly veiled threats. "I hope that I am seen more by my members as a whip who grows the vote rather than forces it," says DeLay. "I spend a lot of time talking to members and trying to take care of their problems." But DeLay adds, "Politics is about rewards...
MAIL THAT AGAIN? Netizens, it seems, are no less gullible than the rest of us. This week the Justice Department was forced to debunk a widely circulated e-mail suggesting African Americans would lose the right to vote in 2007. A brief study of rumor and effect in cyberspace...
DATE September 1998 RUMOR Ken Starr blasted "public pornography" on 60 Minutes back in 1987 EFFECT CBS had to refute: Starr never appeared on show...
...drawing the audience into the conflict," according to Chang. Though each drop is well conceived in its own right, the aesthetics clash fiercely against one another. One in pastels looks like Monet in Watts; another (depicting the poor black neighborhoods) could be mistaken for an Ade Bethune woodprint. The effect is intentionally distasteful. Like the dialogue, each neighborhood is beautiful in isolation to the others, but the combination is discordant...