Word: golden
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...Golden Compass, the first of the Pullman trilogy, reached the screen last December. It cost the same as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ($180 million) but grossed only $70 million at the domestic box office. The very respectable $301 million the movie earned in foreign markets wasn't enough to mask the disappointment of its producing studio, New Line. No sequels were green-lighted, and in February New Line was folded into its parent company, Warner Bros...
...other similarity in the two films: to this adult's eyes, they were of only middling quality. The Golden Compass was middling-good, with a beguiling central performance by 13-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, a slinky turn by Nicole Kidman as an evil-stepmom type and a nifty polar-bear fight. But the film never cohered, and at the end it trailed off into a preview of the two sequels that now don't look as if they'll be made. The first Narnia movie was middling-bad, its four lead child actors displaying little charm, their world holding...
...town of more than 50,000 people, is a five-to six-hour journey by car or motorbike from the old capital of Rangoon. The road passes through a shattered landscape. The 120 m.p.h winds uprooted trees, snapped concrete poles carrying power lines, and blew the tops off the golden pagodas. Structures of brick and concrete are missing their roofs. Houses of wood or straw are all but destroyed. In stricken delta towns like Kungyangon, Dedaye and Pyapon, almost every structure is damaged, many beyond repair. In Bogalay itself, no building is untouched. The streets are flanked by broken power...
...snow, or intense heat is fine, when it comes to wind that’s the one thing that will keep us off the water, and we saw a lot of that.” In the varsity eight, Radcliffe got off the line early and initially led. The Golden Knights made a move, however, and finished in 6:46.6, one second better than the Black and White at 6:47.6. The Engineers pulled across 15 seconds later, and the second varsity Radcliffe boat finished 6.2 seconds after them. “UCF in recent years has been up there...
...article on Obama's mother - one of the best I have read - drags you into the complex worlds of poverty, biracial living, racism and the pursuit of knowledge. Obama knows these complexities better than many or all of the other, born-with-a-golden-spoon candidates. Prabhduev Konana, AUSTIN, TEXAS...