Word: headful
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...jersey and jeans, was doing something élite directors do not do - holding a camera. "Why can't I see anything?" he yelled from an apparently empty warehouse floor to a small crew huddled over computer monitors in a corner. "Oh, oh, oh, I'm in the monster's head!" Cameron backed up, and a peek through his camera lens revealed blackness giving way to a thick and vivid rain forest where a tall, blue, alien version of Sigourney Weaver was battling the monster whose head had just blocked the director's view. On the warehouse floor there...
...Henderson was ousted by the company's board after just eight months on the job. The troubled auto giant--now 60% owned by the U.S. government--has shown modest signs of economic improvement, but Henderson, a company veteran, clashed with directors seeking quicker change. Chairman Ed Whitacre, a former head of AT&T, will take over as interim...
...admits to holes in her memory--"that mysterious dead-head space around the marriage's unraveling"--which leaves the reader impotently grasping at Warren's ghost. Her cadence can sometimes slip into Yoda's rhythms ("fitful, this rest is"). But the overall impression is of a sorrowful narrative poem as humble and funny as it is beautiful. Karr is an "inveterate check grabber," she tells us, out of "the poor girl's need to prove solvency." Perhaps a similar need drives her generosity on the page. Certainly her readers, once again, are the lucky beneficiaries...
...juggle their two daughters' schedule so she could keep an eye on him. "I was afraid in the 30 minutes that I was gone, he would take his life," she said. "I never, ever thought in my wildest dreams that my husband would put a gun to his head and shoot himself, but that's what he wanted to do." After intensive therapy at Walter Reed Army hospital, Sheri said Jeff is on the mend. (See pictures about suicide in Army recruiters' ranks...
...doubtful that even those morbid revelations can turn enough voters back to Chile's center-left coalition, the Concertación. President Michelle Bachelet, a moderate socialist and Chile's first female head of state, remains hugely popular; but Frei Ruiz, 67, hasn't been able to exploit her cachet and has instead come to symbolize the Concertación's staleness after two decades in power, especially as the global recession slows Latin America's most envied economy. Frei Ruiz's problems have been highlighted by the remarkable rise of a third candidate, Marco Enríquez-Ominami - born...