Word: irishness
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...study has found that 3 million Irish men can trace their ancestry back to just one man. In his defense, the man said he'd been drinking." --CONAN O'BRIEN...
...done for the unfortunate, perhaps in the future Time will choose not only people who give because they are wealthy, but also those who give despite their poverty. They are the true Good Samaritans. Samuel Mulia Jakarta While I'm sure many people will question the choice of an Irish rock star and a pair of billionaires as Persons of the Year, Bono and the Gateses are bold and refreshing selections. 2005 was a year of great pain and frustration as a result of the war in Iraq and devastating natural disasters. It would have been easy and predictable...
...American story is, of course, made up of successive influxes of immigrants who arrive in the U.S., struggle to find a place in its society and eventually assimilate. But the group of post-1965 Asians was different from the Jews, Irish and Italians who had landed earlier. The Asian immigrants' distinctive physiognomy may have made it more difficult for them to blend in, but at the same time, their high education and skill levels allowed them quicker entrée into the middle class. Instead of clustering tightly in urban ethnic enclaves, they spread out into suburbia, where they were often...
...usual Manhattan streets to a romanticized London, which both affords him a brilliant group of young British actors and opens up cinematographic potential to explore the cavernous Tate Modern and the idyllic British countryside. “Match Point” tells the story of Chris, an ambitious Irish tennis pro, who first befriends the wealthy and handsome Tom Hewett, (Matthew Goode) then marries his pleasant sister, Chloe (played adorably by Emily Mortimer), securing him life-long financial success. His perfect existence is disturbed by a near-obsessive attraction to Tom’s exquisitely beautiful fianc?...
...rough-cut masterpiece. It’s seduced the on-screen likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Firth, and the seemingly unseduceable Bill Murray. She uses it again in her latest film, “Match Point,” to charm the fidelity off of a married Irish tennis star. Sure, Scarlett has her other exquisite qualities (bee-stung lips, right-cheek mole, and curves that she describes as her “leading ladies”), but she pins your emotions down and half-nelsons them with the voice.When Johansson picks up the phone for an interview with...