Word: honest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from...
...that pattern. Menzel's movies are never barn burners. They have a gentle, slightly wandering air about them, which puts them at a competitive disadvantage in the international market, which prefers films that more directly, more heroically, more violently take up history's cataclysmic events. Sometimes, to be honest, his work shades over from the wry to the merely coy and there are moments in his films that are just too cute for comfort...
...says. "For me, those factors were only anecdotal in telling the story of these two solitary women, and how they arranged their lives to give full rein to their passions," says Barbery by phone from Kyoto, which she and her husband adopted as home earlier this year. "To be honest, I was just creating characters who love the things I do, and who allowed me to celebrate that through them...
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...repairs (fifty-fifty all the way) to what happens if one of them gets married (the husband has no claim on the house) or dies (the surviving owner has the right to buy the other half before it goes to next of kin). "People are friends, and they're honest people, but situations change," says Andy Sirkin, a real estate lawyer whose firm crafted the agreement. "You need to be ready...