Word: hallmarked
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...hallmark of any commercial film is that it resolves the plot. More and more, as this year's Cannes selections demonstrate, art films shrink from happy endings; sad ones, endings of any certainty. Michael Haneke's Hidden, the critics' current favorite to win the Palme d'Or, refused to unravel its central enigma. So does Broken Flowers, though Don need only ask a question or two of a few people he meets to find what he was ostensibly searching for. The mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying...
Champagne, catfights, and coked-out models are the hallmark of any fashion show worth its money. Not so at Eleganza 2005. While you might have been able to find one or more of those things at the Kong after-party, participants say Eleganza was more about Red Bull, teamwork, and psyched-up models. Scandalous...
...premium on female virginity only add to the women's problems. In one shocking discussion, the women debate the merits of "embroidery," the Iranian euphemism for suturing the vaginal opening to "restore" virginity. Bringing us such glimpses of an unfamiliar world continues to be the hallmark of Satrapi's work...
...paper's hallmark remains the factoid, a short fact or statistic that appears halfway into a story to buttress a point or offer an example. Factoids: Appear in clusters. Can be as short as a few words or as long as several paragraphs. Always have this little...
...should have been sent packing and roundly rejected. Oliver Rock Berlin For the time being at least, the European Union has succeeded in conveying to President Bush that he should learn from history and avoid another misadventure, this time in Iran. Unity among the European Union leaders was the hallmark of that significant change. They have also publicly expressed anguish about a continuation of the U.S.'s Iraq policy. Ali Ashraf Khan Karachi You said Europe is looking for signs that the U.S. is ready to accept it as a full partner. But it's not a question...