Word: fitfulness
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...hours; the new one synopsizes all that plot into the first hour, then adds a third act that diminishes, demeans, defames both the material and the actors. To slam home the theme of sexual aggression, Pinter forces one of the characters to dress in drag. Which makes Sleuth fit into the year's dominant trend, of movies from 300 to Blades of Glory, from Chuck and Larry to Superbad: guys channel their attraction or hatred for each other into games of teasing and fighting...
...Polk, the creative process began with choosing the setting, and the characters and storyline followed."We sat down and thought of as many settings as we could and eventually settled on the idea of an enchanted forest," Chen says. "Then we came up with characters based on what would fit in an enchanted forest."Chen also says that character-creation isn't just about puns."You can either come up with a character by thinking of a funny pun for a name or you can think of something that might belong to the setting and think about how to make...
...Shaking Through the Ages The article on belly dancing by pregnant women noted that "the ancient art form is being practiced by moms-to-be to stay fit and ease their way through labor" [Sept. 3]. I took a belly-dancing class decades ago because it was a fun "night out with the girls" that included exercise, music, camaraderie, snacks, a little wine and gorgeous costumes. It was better than the gym, shopping or the bar scene. But we were taught that belly dancing was originally a way for Middle Eastern women to stay fit and ease labor, and only...
Seeing a window of opportunity in their own sector, officers quickly mobilized, taking cues from the Anbar program and redesigning it to fit local conditions, enlisting volunteers from the town of Musayyib and surrounding villages to be part of ad hoc militias supported and paid by the U.S. military. It's still a work in progress and sometimes dangerously clumsy. Members of the American battalion here recently shot and killed three of the new local volunteers at a checkpoint just north of town, saying they mistook them for insurgents planting roadside bombs...
...minute detail by investigators in both countries," says one slightly disgusted French justice official when asked about this week's visit to Paris by the jurors. "Case closed - move on." He goes on: "The official logic is by giving them the visual framework and time-span they all fit into, [the jurors] will better understand and mentally arrange all the complex details they'll be given about the crash." Then the official grouchily adds his personal analysis for the visit. "People can't get enough of Diana, so they keep coming back to her through the crash," he says. "Come...