Word: entertain
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...opening moves fast and humorously; Luhrmann knows he is crafting an epic and wants the audience to know it too. As Lady Ashley herself comments, “It’s all very Outback adventure.”The first half of the movie is therefore quite entertaining: it’s a joyful romp across the Outback with lots of humor and action, and plenty of minor characters. But when the droving team reaches Darwin and things take a more serious turn, whatever fun the movie once had quickly vanishes, and we suddenly get 40 minutes of Hugh...
...much of the past year, most Democratic lawmakers have supported Obama's plan. But with Obama's election, two key Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee have begun to entertain the possibility of another solution: Developing a new government-wide policy different from the field manual to regulate interrogation techniques, a plan that appears to be drawing support within the intelligence community but some concern from human rights groups...
...While Rafferty does a fairly decent job of remaining objective, he is a Harvard man and he is also looking to entertain. I’m sure he picked out specific aspects from his interviews and used them not only to inform but to develop his narrative...
...advances. The sheik said that in addition to covering Jacko's living and travel expenses during his year-long stay in Bahrain, he built the singer a recording studio, spent more than $300,000 securing him a "motivational guru" and gave him $250,000 in cash so Jackson "could entertain his friends at Christmas." Jackson has maintained that these were gifts from the Arab prince, an interpretation Al Khalifa denies. "Many times he confirmed that he would pay me back," the sheik said. (Read "Celebrity Worship: Good for Your Health...
...sense of the word, it was another clear example of the thawing of the relationship. Top of mind, from our point of view, is a New Zealand - U.S. free-trade agreement. Now, there are a lot of factors there, not least being whether President-elect Obama is willing to entertain that idea...