Word: elements
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Contrasting Bridges' cavalier attitude is John Goodman as his bowling buddy Walter, who gets worked up about everything. The Coen brothers get plenty of good comic material out of this pair and thankfully don't overplay the "odd couple" element. Walter is a uniquely funny character too: though he obviously has a good heart, he can't stop his over-the-top rants. "Shomer Shabbas!" he screams, declaring his unwillingness to play an important league bowling game on the Jewish day of rest. Towards the end of the film, Goodman delivers a hilariously irrelevant, insensitive funeral elegy that somehow also...
...element of the program is "democracy," what organizers define as representation that let's every citizen take part in government and community discussions to generate political solutions...
WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court kept it simple Wednesday: Harassment, plus an element of sex, equals sexual harassment -- no matter what your gender. In a decision hailed by gay-rights groups, the court defended the right of a Louisiana oil-rig worker to sue three coworkers for sexual harassment, even though all involved are men. "We see no justification... for a categorical rule excluding same-sex harassment claims from the coverage of Title VII," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court...
...along, and that's what sets game shows apart from other shows. Nice bells, buzzers and lights are also essential. It's the stereotype of a game show, but that's really what draws people to it. Plus the game itself. There has to be suspense and risk: the element of gambling...
What auctioneers are doing by this indiscriminate practice is selling all that remains of people's feelings. We learn in science class that no element of matter completely disappears, and if that is true of human beings, then the outpourings of our hearts become evidence of immortality. Take away that evidence, give it up as if it were any old commodity, and feelings are no different from asparagus tongs...