Word: hectored
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...Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder attracts the largest crowds. Look for a tour offering stops at Nelson Mandela's former house or the Hector Petersen Memorial and Museum, named for a 13-year-old boy who was killed in the famous 1976 uprising; then enjoy a shebeen (backyard bar). Try Jimmy's Face to Face Tours (www.face2face.co.za), which pioneered the concept, or Max Maximum Tours www.backpackafrica.com/ accommod/gauteng/maxmaxim). Half-day tours cost around...
...Andy Rooney are both 85; Morley Safer is a grandpaternal 73; Don Hewitt, the show?s founding and continuing boss, is 81 and reluctant to quit. But ?60 Minutes? has a ticking urgency: it?s a time bomb ever threatening to go boom. The show has a need to hector, and a suspicion, in most of its stories, that powerful people often have something to hide, and that it is the mission of Hewitt and his honchos to expose greed, chicanery and general weaseliness. (Recall the superb ?Saturday Night Live? sketch, in November 1984, when Shearer as Wallace quizzed...
When he was setting the Parisian music world abuzz with his precocious piano playing in the 1840s, the young Camille Saint-Saens was taken to play for the great Hector Berlioz. Saint-Saens, with an aplomb beyond his years, dashed off a dazzling keyboard display. "All he lacks," announced Berlioz, "is inexperience...
...shot Brazil and Batman in the '80s and gave a nicely sepulchral tone to last year's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And heading the cast is a tony quartet of hunks: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana (who somehow survived the wreck of The Hulk) as Hector, Sean Bean (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings) as Odysseus and Orlando Bloom (who was Tolkien's elf lord Legolas and Johnny Depp's young foil in Pirates of the Caribbean) as that thieving scamp Paris. And in the role of Priam, King of Troy, is Peter O'Toole...
...slowly, slowly discover that over the next 10 years." It may be too late for a gradual buildup. He has already made an impression on Hollywood. A featured role in "Black Hawk Down" led to "The Hulk." Now he is shooting Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy", in which he plays Hector to Brad Pitt's Achilles - and that role could make Bana next year's June pinup as well as this year...