Word: haloed
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...Bill Bradley was willing, and of course he was on next - and sounding extremely presidential. The only politician around with the halo to make "shame on all of us" an applause line gave a tight and moving speech that sounded nothing like the listless death throes of that bruising primary campaign. "Let me get right to the point - we're all here to elect the next president of the United States, Al Gore," he began, but by the time he had made his way through the explanation of how enemy becomes endorsee he had set a very high...
...visible halo, but the stocky, uneducated Chinese woman is a saint to thousands. For 13 years Cheng Chui-ping sold clothes and cheap eats along East Broadway in New York City's Chinatown. During lunch hours she would chop vegetables, wash dishes and wait on tables at a restaurant that served dishes from her native Fujian province. Occasionally she could be seen tottering down the street struggling with bales of clothes, dragging them into her general-merchandise store. But to many she was a veritable goddess, dispensing both mercy and fortune. Her devotees called her Dajie Ping--Big Sister Ping...
...HALO, below, a futuristic combat game expected late this year from Bungie, is building buzz for its amazing graphics, rumored to be the most realistic ever. In one exciting sequence, you and your buddies team up to man different posts on a tanklike military transport--one person driving, another at the big gun, a third riding shotgun. Cool...
...idea. I can't get in touch with her" "This sounds like the dumbest story I've ever heard," says Damon's rep Jennifer Glaisek. But who cares if the story is true? The important thing is that it's indicative of the souring mood on Matt - his halo is gone, his golden sheen tarnished. And in the background, Ben Affleck breathes a sigh of relief...
...warming reticence, a fond awareness of its characters' frailties. Elfman is a natural; she radiates. And Norton is excellent at playing that rarity, a man with a heart both cunning and innocent. He even dyed his hair blond because "I wanted Brian to have a halo--a sun-kissed, God-touched kind of thing." As we said: blessed...