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...Beazley makes a terrific 10-min. speech, whatever the occasion. But once he passes the 15-min. mark, it's even money that he'll flop. The more he warms to his subject, the less he seems aware of the audience; the old habits of a lecturer hobble him, especially on defense and military history. But there is a new side to the man. He's always been avuncular (which weakened him as a leader in some eyes). Now he's taking that image a step further by appearing more intimate and less self-conscious about addressing what politicians usually...
...ROCKY After a colossal flop (Heaven's Gate), the studio tries to milk old successes, but the bank forecloses not long after Rocky V Low.....?............High...
...were NBA commissioner, what would you do differently? I would speed the game up a little bit and make it really a game. Make a guy have to beat a guy--not flop and get calls and be nice to the referees and kiss ass. You're not better than me, you shouldn't be able to beat...
...compared with 7.2 for those who didn't. (A 1-to-12 scale is used to grade essays. That score is then combined with the score on the grammar questions and translated into the familiar 200 to 800 points.) As my editors know well, first-person writing can flop. But the College Board is now distributing a guide called "20 Outstanding SAT Essays"--all of them perfect scores--and many are unbearably mechanical and clichéd ("smooth sailing always comes after the storm"; "they say that history repeats itself...
...decided that the best direction for us is to do something where we lead the way in terms of where the film industry is going," says Cruise's producing partner Paula Wagner. The private-equity model has suffered some high-profile failures, like this year's big-budget flop Poseidon, but new investors continue to rush to Tinseltown. In September, Flyboys, at $60 million one of the most financially ambitious and risky films funded entirely by private investors, lands in theaters. With expensive period sets and complex aerial battle scenes, the producers kept the film about World War I flying...