Word: hefting
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...pals to guest-star in his shell game: Julia Roberts as a femme fatale, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as losing contestants on The Dating Game. The director also played Barris' mysterious (i.e., imaginary) CIA contact, spitting out some choice Kaufman dialogue and giving the film even more star heft...
...supported corrupt, repressive regimes like that in Egypt (and, in the 1980s, Saddam Hussein's Iraq) because it suited its purpose to do so. The American Administration's commitment to democracy in the region seems to have been a long time coming, and so far has had little heft behind it. In December, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave an important speech, in which he said the U.S. must give "sustained and energetic attention to economic, political and educational reform" in the Middle East. Powell then announced a new U.S.--Middle East Partnership Initiative to span the "hope gap" with...
...Hero, a stirringly patriotic hymn to China's founding myth, is similarly unprovocative, giving Chinese audiences a past they can be proud of without making them think much. Zhang concedes that the movie lacks the intellectual and emotional heft of his earlier works: "Hero is a genre piece. Its message is very simple, but it breaks ground visually. The audience will remember the aesthetics more than the story. Its message is a message of peace. But there's nothing particularly exciting about that message unless it's taken in the context of the genre, where it's something...
...hook. 'This time, I thought they were serious about fixing the banks,' says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka had convinced the world that it could expect a set of proposals with real heft. But he, like so many before him, got mired in the morass of inertia and self-interest that is Japanese politics. Receiving lukewarm support from his boss Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Takenaka has buckled. At a press briefing last week, Takenaka called his plan 'a good start.' Who says the Japanese have...
...male lead; Wilson has fabulous flying feet and a sweet, budding charisma. And my secret chorine is Jennifer Gambatese, in the tiny role of Brenda, the teen who has to leave the show because she's pregnant (by Corky, it's suggested). Gambatese, who then sticks around to add heft and sparkle to the chorus, has the looks of a fleshed-out Parker Posey and that extra bit of juice in her steps. She also hits - on the button she's as cute as - the highest note at the climax of the show's title song...