Word: hals
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...Moore, a former prosecutor with a tinge of Hal Holbrook's hangdog air, such speeches are painful. As he explains, he has been a deficit hawk since joining Congress in 1998. Moore and his fellow Blue Dogs tried to win the Bush Administration's support for a budget-balancing proposal they called pay-as-you-go. "President Bush and the Republicans in Congress refused to support us," Moore says. "And in eight years of the Bush Administration, our debt went up $5 trillion...
...Turner, Hal • arrest of for posting the photos and addresses of three Chicago judges who upheld handgun bans, along with statements like "These judges deserve to be killed" and "Behold these devils...
...three expressions (smiley-face, frowny-ace and deadpan) and the would-be soothing voice of Kevin Spacey. Like Socrates or a rabbi or a shrink, Gerty annoyingly answers questions with questions. (Sam, agitated: "Am I a f---in' clone?" Gerty, trying to deflect the issue: "Are you hungry?") Unlike HAL-9000 from the Kubrick movie, however, this computer is not totally the slave of his programmers. Sometimes it will aid Sam as he rises from impotence into insurrection...
...movies they show. IMAX is glorious, but the company is now expanding into multiplexes without true IMAX screens, and often using digital instead of their own 70mm format. Some of our great moments: Patton, Oklahoma! in Todd-AO 70mm, Lawrence of Arabia, and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL 9000 notes in the film that he was born "in the computer lab in Urbana, Illinois." The restored Virginia Theater uses a vast, beautiful screen...
...Still, staffers at the Times made sure the city honored their P-I colleagues. Times reporter Hal Bernton stood outside the P-I building at day's end on Monday, holding a bullhorn and propping up several handwritten signs thanking P-I reporters for 146 years of service and declaring, "Journalism Is a Passion that Never Dies." Half an hour later, reporters and local press did gather to share solace. "It's a simple sentiment," Bernton said beforehand. "Let's not end this with us huddled in one corner and them in another." If the Times succumbs to the same...