Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fuqua, directing a feature for the first time in The Replacement Killers (another Chow performance) had only commercial and music video directing credits before taking the helm of a full feature length film. The result was high-gloss and largely empty cinema, concentrating largely on impressive visuals but yielding flat and dull content -- which brings us to Andy Tennant. This is not his first film, and I dare say it won't be his last, but his previous efforts have been for the most part rather uninspiring. Ever After, his most recent work, had all the costumes, pomp and circumstance...
...acting performances or the superb writing of the script. No, all the information disseminated is that Anna is epic in it's sweep and scope. The directing may be poor and sloppy, but the five thousand costumes built from scratch look really, really nice. The acting may be flat and wooden, but the studio employed enough elephants and horses for a single shot of the mile long royal procession. The plot may be incoherent, trite and full of holes, but a horde of carpenters and artists were hired to build an ornate five acre replicate of a Siamese palace...
Some of those coins rolled back into Harvard students' pockets last week as a committee of Undergraduate Council members and University Information Systems (UIS) officials announced a new rate plan for Harvard long distance, cutting the flat-rate plan by three cents a minute and lowering other rates as well as creating a new 8-cents-anytime plan with a $5.95 monthly...
...investigation into links between the Russian mob and the Bank of New York, USA Today reports that U.S. gumshoes went to Russian officials last week for bank statements, audiotapes and documents relating to the possible diversion of nearly $15 billion from Russia to U.S. shores ? and were turned down flat. According to a U.S. investigator, Moscow called the request an "unnecessary intrusion" into its internal affairs, and later, Russian investigators visiting Washington claimed they had not been shown any evidence supporting the allegations. (U.S. investigators said they showed the officials "irrefutable evidence" of billions of dollars laundered, including hundreds...
Start by examining one of your sneakers on a flat surface. If the heel is worn more on the inside than the outside, you're a pronator. That means you roll your feet inward each time your heel strikes the ground. You need a control shoe specially built to counteract this tendency. If your heel is worn more on the outside, you're an underpronator, which means you ought to wear a shoe with more cushioning...