Word: lures
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...mainstream comic studios, the poaching of auteurs serves two purposes: a technique to lure readers with a more independent sensibility, such as cynical college students, to characters they “outgrew” and as a look at the creators’ reaction to access to classic characters. These creators are more willing to challenge the dominant clichés of knock-down drag-out fist-fights that characterize much of mainstream comics. As might be expected from a work featuring such a diverse array of creators, the strength and tone of the stories vary widely...
...only would Romney’s proposal effectively squelch efforts to lure stem cell researchers to Massachusetts, it would throw a substantial hurdle in the path of existing research in Massachusetts, including Harvard’s planned Stem Cell Institute. And the roadblocks stem cell researchers face are already large. President Bush has limited federal funding to only a few stem cell lines, and it was recently discovered these meager sources are irreversibly contaminated in a manner that makes them unsuitable for therapeutic use in humans. Short on money and short on stem cells, researchers do not need yet another...
...administration’s plan to lure students to the event includes $1 draft beers, pizza from Pinocchio’s, burritos from Felipe’s, and a raffle for a free iPod...
...mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard to shake. "Strange," he says, "I prefer yours. I shall never forget your hair and your eyes." They almost kiss ... when an off-camera scream shakes him out of his dream. It is from his girlfriend Joan (Frances Dade), and the societal message...
...couldn't kiss. A Wong character might lure men to delight or destruction, but she was forbidden the main movie signifier of romantic fulfillment: the kiss. In Piccadilly with Jameson Thomas and in The Road to Dishonor (the English-language remake of Hai-Tang) with John Longden, their kiss was cut by British censors "on moral grounds." Wong, quoted in TIME, proclaimed the furor much ado about bussing, "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." Both co-stars agreed. Thomas: "In England, we have less prejudice...