Word: elements
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...penguin without a heartsong could truly belong?" asks Happy Feet's narrator at one point. This being a George Miller movie, the answer is an entertainingly entangled double negative-together with a family-friendly environmental message as light on its feet as the dance work. "You can see that element of the healer in all of George's works," insists Szubanski. "And I think that's partly why he's drawn to the hero's journey, because it's ultimately very optimistic." Though he's one of Australia's greatest cultural exports, Miller is less sanguine when it comes...
...President Bush saluted Ford for bringing his calm to "one of the most divisive moments in our nation's history," and said he was revered "because America needed him, not because he needed the office." It was a unique element of an uncommon Presidency...
...film's backers say they deliberately aimed to make "wealth enhancement" a major element of the project. "We desired to hit the masses, and money is the number one thing on the masses' minds," says Bob Rainone, a former IBM salesman and telcom exec who now serves as Byrne's U.S. business partner. Wealth enhancement is also part of the The Secret's business plan. Among the spinoff books expected in 2007 are The Secret Workbook and a collection of The Secret Success Stories. Byrne will also begin filming a sequel to The Secret in January, for an August release...
...Task Force on General Education appears to have experienced a crisis of faith. The “reason and faith” requirement, which had been the boldest and most talked about element of the original report, was summarily consigned to whatever afterlife there may be for dead curriculum proposals...
...Tracy Chevalier’s breakaway novel “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” the blue and yellow head cloth that servant girl Griet insists on wearing when she poses for her master, Johannes Vermeer, becomes the unforgettable element of allure in her portrait...