Word: gracefulness
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...unleashing the deadly substance. The first asbestos suits were filed in the 1970s and by 1982 had pushed Johns-Manville, the largest manufacturer, into bankruptcy. Wave after wave followed, forcing more than 50 companies into Chapter 11, including Owens-Corning and, last year, chemical and materials giant W.R. Grace...
...Along the way, Doyle, who in December took out the New York Film Critics Circle prize for In the Mood for Love, became the latest Australian cinematographer to grace an awards podium (another, the veteran Don McAlpine was recently Oscar-nominated for Moulin Rouge). It's a strength of vision that Doyle puts down partly to Australia's clarity of light?"because the relationship between our living spaces and the environment is so direct, and because our internal life has to be replenished by something," he says. "I mean, most Australians are pretty grounded people, so when the imagination goes...
However, Samantha Mumba as the Mara, the Eloi woman Hartdegan befriends, simply glows. With her expressive eyes she exudes a natural grace that makes her the only believable character in the film. Time Machine marks Mumba’s film debut and she has turned in a performance that is sure to make her the new favorite among Hollywood starlets. Her character represents the simultaneous innocence and wisdom of the new human race. Mumba’s acting conveys the emotional and physical landscape of the future world in a way that the extravagant set does not. Apparently Warner Brothers...
...Hajj, literally "setting out," is the world's largest, regularly scheduled pilgrimage. Like other religious treks, it offers grace, a surer shot at salvation, maybe a miraculous cure for an illness. But the Hajj is obligatory: it must be performed at least once by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. (Borrowing money to come is prohibited, although many do.) Having performed the Hajj becomes a lifelong distinction celebrated with an honorific: I can now call myself Hajji Maseeh Rahman. And the Hajj is done en masse during one five-day period in the final month of the Islamic...
...brought a gift, a signed note from George C. Marshall, another military man turned Secretary of State. The rock star turns lyrical when talking about the Marshall Plan: "You still find people my parents' age in Europe who talk about the Marshall Plan. That was where Europe felt the grace of America, in a way more than just stepping in with its military might." Bono wants his vision for Africa to be as effective and as enduring for future generations as the Marshall Plan was for earlier ones. "Can we do something that people will be proud of in generations...