Word: feeling
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...scene, Richard is exploring backstage, and we feel his pleasure in his insider status; he's puffed up from it. Then he lights a match to better examine graffiti left by someone who walked these boards in earlier days and inadvertently sets off the theater's sprinkler system, dousing everything, including Welles, who is madder than a wet cat. It perfectly catches the mood of the theater as seductress: one minute, she wants you, she makes you feel blessed, another, she reminds you what a buffoon you are to believe you belong here...
...particular preparation to get yourself into the mind-set to portray Omar? Yeah, I did a lot of research into what it means to be a black man in Baltimore. I wanted Omar to look, sound and feel like someone who was born and raised in Baltimore - not a New York kid trying to portray that. So I had to learn the Baltimore dialects so the writing could sound authentic. They'd write things like "Do tell?" and "How do?" We don't talk like that in Brooklyn. I thought, What does that mean? "Do tell?" That's not gangster...
What kind of roles would you like to take on in the future? My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he's one of our unsung heroes. He's been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I'd just like to bring him to the forefront. It's a fresh story...
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Harvard Business School graduate Jamie Dimon wrote in The Washington Post on Nov. 13 that regulators should be empowered to liquidate assets and fire management when they see fit, so that individuals engaging in risky behavior will “feel the pain.” The next day, Barclays CEO John S. Varley wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that “incentives and compensation must be better aligned to delivery, must take account of risk, and must be paid out over time...
...trying to calm emotions by taking a forward look, suggesting new measures to guard against communal violence. Among its proposals is a new law stating that no political leader in the government would be allowed to simultaneously hold any position in any religious body. But many in India feel that such measures are beside the point, because India's youthful electorate has already left communal politics behind. "These are things of a distant past," says Sharma. "Hindutva, the right-wing philosophy hasn't worked in over two elections and it's not going to work...