Word: fronting
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...banking crises of the past year, he expands the story of the financial collapse into an epic of malfeasance--capital crimes on an international scale. The movie also has the requisite Moore grandstanding scenes: attempting a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, parking a Brink's truck in front of banking establishments to retrieve the bailout billions they received, wrapping the New York Stock Exchange building in yellow tape that reads CRIME SCENE. The Underdog telling off the overlord: it's a fixture of earnest Hollywood drama...
...interested in evoking emotion as in marshaling data; Moore uses cartoons and farcical collisions of images to sell his sagas. To the standard regimen of interviews, film clips and pie charts, he had the showman's savvy to add an extra ingredient: himself. Voilŕ! The docucomedy, with a front man as prominent as the subjects he investigates...
Hornby's name appears on the front cover of the British edition of Moore's novel A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf; 336 pages), her first since Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? in 1994. It's rare that a blurb escapes from its usual station on the back cover of a book, but if Hornby ever called me the best American writer of my generation, I'd tattoo it on my forehead...
...worked for the Gilliams. They learned from their daughter's school, which had a body mass index screening, that their youngest was leaning toward obesity. Then Greg found out he was prediabetic. So now the Gilliams devote some of the time they used to spend in front of the TV to washing and slicing fruits and vegetables as on-the-go snacks for the next day. "If I buy a cantaloupe, cut it up and bag the pieces, we'll eat it. Otherwise, it just sits in the fridge," says Chris. To make meal prep more efficient, after every trip...
...absolutely [Grimm, Akpan and Rousmaniere] that combined on the goal to really set me up,” Rogers said. “I just happened to be the one in front of the net to tap it home...