Word: lure
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Dutifully, they lined up to Enlist in Liberal Hollywood's answer to the war on terrorism, and one by one, last year's political movies were mowed down by audience indifference. Oscar-winning actors could not lure moviegoers to see Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah or Rendition; viewers figured the films were a cross between a harangue and homework. Not many more people came when producers tried crossbreeding hot-spot intrigue with familiar genres. The Kingdom, a Jamie Foxx action picture set in Saudi Arabia, and Charlie Wilson's War, with Tom Hanks in an upbeat comedy...
Does Roger-Leo conquer the evildoers? We'll never tell. But as for Body of Lies conquering the audience, demonstrating that a film can be true to knotty issues of counterterrorism and still lure the masses with updated spy-movie thrills: mission ... well, nearly but not quite accomplished...
Since the Sept. 15 collapse of Lehman Brothers, the $2.6 trillion market for state and city bonds has been virtually frozen - partly because investors are scared to own anything more dangerous than Treasuries, and partly because interest rates that cities must pay to lure buyers have shot up 25% or more. As a result, some $15 billion worth of projects have been temporarily shelved in the past three weeks, according to the consultancy Municipal Market Advisors. Broward County, Fla., pushed back plans to borrow $170 million for new sewer and water lines. Maine held off on a $50 million bond...
...Barack Obama ran that classic, careful late-game offense Tuesday night in the second of three presidential debates this fall. Ahead in the polls, he was safe, cautious, disciplined and boring - and nothing John McCain attempted was enough to lure him into recklessness. By the end of the evening at Belmont University in Nashville, McCain was 90 minutes closer to running out of time...
...program that will fill the A.R.T.’s currently empty seats, restabilize its financial situation, and maintain its reputation as a beacon for innovative theater. Yet it is her charming smile that reveals most about Paulus’ plans for the 2009-2010 season. She hopes to lure every Harvard student to her theatrical events, integrating the A.R.T. more fully into campus life. “At the top of my agenda is to make the A.R.T. the most thriving, vital center for theater at Harvard,” she says. THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOWWhen Paulus...