Word: freshness
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...more weekends a year on the 'junket circuit,' gathering whatever juicy morsels they can to satisfy the insatiable appetite for news about Hollywood." And then they get to give an awards show: a dreadful, amateur, mean-spirited one, to judge from Friday's disaster. Its only fresh moment: when Bullock came onstage to share the Actress prize and planted Streep with a full-on kiss...
Residents were urged to find alternative sources of drinking water as authorities tried to stop 40,000 gal. (almost 151,500 L) of leaked diesel fuel from contaminating a stretch of the Yellow River--China's second longest and a source of fresh water for millions. Some 700 workers were reportedly mobilized to control the spill, which was not made public for several days...
There are a few exceptions, most notably the spectacular Robert Walsh in his portrayal of Nick Bottom. Walsh is a breath of fresh air, and his presence on stage adds a kind of vitality to the show that other scenes fundamentally lack. His Bottom is a likable blue-collar guy, charmingly obnoxious and sometimes brash, but all the more endearing for his flaws...
...circumstances of Kelly's death were the subject of the Hutton inquiry, which reported in January 2004, largely exonerating Campbell but leaving many questions unanswered. The current inquiry will doubtless fill in some blanks, but it seems just as certain to raise fresh, and troubling, questions...
Year-end lists and new year's resolutions are as easy to mock as they are to make. But in uncertain times, reviewing and previewing are serious business. They let us imagine we can impose some order on the fresh calendar page - marking holidays, graduations, movie premieres, tax-free back-to-school shopping week - even as we wait to see which days, now anonymous or devoted to watching groundhogs, will be raised from obscurity to eternity in the history books...