Word: eliza
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Making the closing argument, Jones assailed Fortier and his wife Lori, another prosecution witness. He apologized for playing the tapes, which were "vulgar and appalling." It was necessary, he said, because "what we basically have here with the Fortiers is the prosecutorial equivalent of Eliza Doolittle being made over into the Henry Higgins of the fbi and My Fair Lady has become My Fair Witness." Another defense lawyer, Christopher Tritico, asked why PETN, the explosive material found on McVeigh's clothes, was not discovered elsewhere. "The government didn't give you any PETN from McVeigh's car," he said...
...stripper, Love won the New York Film Critics Circle Award as Best Supporting Actress. Last month the same woman who used to apply lipstick the way toddlers mash crayons was demurely turned out for the Oscars in a chiffon Versace gown. It was the most thorough transformation since Eliza Doolittle met Henry Higgins. If Courtney does become the next Audrey Hepburn, don't say we didn't warn...
...apart. Only Mel B., whose voice has a bit of grit, stands out; the rest have bright, slight voices, more light than heat, more Wilson Phillips than En Vogue. It's also disconcerting that the Girls' accents disappear when they sing, only to reappear during spoken-word segments, like Eliza Doolittle forgetting her manners. It's as if they are so closely copying American pop music that their own distinctive qualities are erased. In fact, most of the songs on Spice sound like '90s hip-hop updates of funk songs from the '70s. Listen to the surging...
...FAIR LADY: Playwright George Bernard Shaw's clearheaded comedy Pygmalion (1913) ends with Eliza Doolittle leaving her mentor Henry Higgins to pursue a life of her own. To stymie efforts to tag on a happy ending, Shaw went so far as to write an afterword in which he married off Eliza to the foppish Freddy Hill. But Shaw's efforts were in vain: the wildly popular musical version, staged in 1956, six years after his death, ends with the unmistakably romantic reconciliation that audiences had secretly been hoping for for half a century...
...parenthood theme The Tasker daughter Dana (Eliza Dushku) isn't a presence for much of the film, but she makes an impact when she appears. She's perfect 14-year-old--she has the guts to steal a key and go out onto a dangerous ledge to escape terrorists, but she still screams for her daddy to save her. It's one of the most hair-raising, but one of the most memorable scenes. She's tough girl. Which leads into yet another Cameron trademark...