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...there is a great hunger for stories about people, and the idea of empathizing with characters has kind of gone away. Traveling around with this movie, I've heard lots of people actually empathize with the characters in the story. Parents or friends find something in the film to latch onto, and I think there is a need for that and people really do want it. We've spoonfed the masses these kind of technological movies where you can go in, be wowed by technology, eat your popcorn and not think...
...recent interview with The New York Times, Senator Joseph R. Biden (D- Del) said that voters traditionally latch onto third-party candidates partly out of frustration over the current state of affairs than out of any real affinity for the candidate himself...
...wonder drug--we are forced to pick and choose what is important enough to notice. We analyze the booming economy and judge it to be healthy because the Dow Jones closes at a record-breaking 11,000, but ignore the widening chasm between rich and poor; we latch on to the fact that this will be the most expensive presidential race in history, but decline to pay attention to falling voter turnout. More and more often, we gravitate towards the sound bite and the nickname, equating "memorable" with "milestone...
...machine is always asking to be plugged in? But being able to run for six hours (the length of a school day) demanded a large battery, which the full keyboard forced down to the machine's bottom lip. The design guys, meanwhile, had decided that the perfect latch was no latch at all, just a clamshell top that clicked securely shut, like a cell phone. The engineers by this point realized that the heavy battery made the bottom dense enough to handle the latchless...
...diplomatic shuttle on April 14, Chernomyrdin had spent dozens of fruitless hours with Milosevic, most of them listening. Then on May 19, the Russian detected a subtle shift. During a seven-hour chat, Milosevic kept leaning forward, paying attention, listening intently, as if hoping to hear something he could latch...