Word: fainted
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...Faint praise, perhaps, at a time when network mini-series have sunk to the soap-opera drivel of North and South and Kane & Abel. But Bleak House is also a step above the general run of tony, tasteful and sometimes tedious British drawing-room dramas that arrive regularly on these shores. There is, for one thing, scarcely a drawing room to be found. The beautifully detailed production moves with ease from the grand country estate of Lord and Lady Dedlock (Robin Bailey and Diana Rigg) to the drab chambers of Chancery and into the sad, grimy streets of London slums...
...stations, one at each end. The first is like a rowing machine, except you have to push as well as pull; the second is like a stair climber. After four minutes on each, my heart was pounding, my muscles felt like lead, and I thought I was going to faint. I had certainly got a workout...
...Politics aren’t for the faint of heart, but that doesn’t mean that anyone was treated unfairly or in an underhanded manner,” Mahan wrote...
...Paderborn-Elsen, a secondary school in the state of North Rhine Westphalia, began a healthy-lunches policy in the early '90s, after the meals served by the school's caterer grew progressively worse. "The tomato soup would end up containing only three rice grains and with only a faint notion of a real tomato," says Sigrid Beer, a mother of three kids at the school and a nutrition researcher. "We decided that we needed something more healthy." The parents now run their own independent cafeteria with eight employees. It regularly feeds 300 children - up from 70 a little over...
...gold before (the Bee Gees' How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?), but this time he excels himself. Shout Out Louds Very Loud Singer Adam Olenius broadcasts his influences with his vocal cords (the Cure's Robert Smith and U2's Bono), but his swing from nonchalant weariness to faint glimmer of hope on this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds new. Akon Lonely Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus - a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed - arrives, and the song...