Word: manners
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...modest, easygoing manner belies his single-minded dedication to vaulting at top speed over 10 barriers, each more than a meter high. His parents wanted him to study computer engineering or some other profession befitting his middle-class Shanghai upbringing, but Liu was intent on athletics. He entered a local sports school as a high jumper and then switched to hurdles, although some coaches thought a Chinese athlete shouldn't even bother. But Liu, who hurdled for joy rather than obligation, was hooked. "I liked the fact that so much of hurdles is about technique and that you have...
They ground a plot that's full of logical inconsistencies and does not have quite enough completely compelling incidents to sustain its considerable length. But against these complaints you have to set the linear minimalism of its structure and its blessedly low-tech manner. This is a movie where the cops interrupt the action to pull over the cab for a minor infraction; where, best of all, LOW BATT starts flashing on the cell phone at a crucial moment. In other words, this is a movie that manages somehow to fuse ordinary reality and more or less believable fantasy...
...squealed, an eerie, unearthly sound. The butcher ran a sharp knife under its neck and slit its throat, stepping smartly backwards. The pig fell on its side, thrashing about and gurgling obscenely. Blood sprayed from its neck. Lau put his hands on my shoulder in an affable manner and said, 'You talk [about what Booth had seen in the Walled City], maybe you [end up] like this.'" He also sees a glitzier side of Hong Kong, the shopping paradise. "I knew I could not just walk into one of these shops so I worked the obvious ploy, waiting until...
...attacks on Bush during the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal and the Marines' embarrassing retreat from Fallujah. I suspect these moves were intentional--part of the newly confident Kerry's grand design for the campaign: to lie low until July, when he announced his running mate in exactly the manner that he intended, and then to make the grand step onto center stage when he accepts his party's nomination in Boston. Still, Kerry is about to enter far more difficult political terrain than he has ever encountered before, and one wonders if there are more near death experiences...
...movie version, Daniel (Daniel Travis) and Susan (Blanchard Ryan) are on a Bahamas holiday when their dive boat leaves without them. A day and night in open water bring out all manner of monsters, not just sharks. And all manner of fears. As Susan says of the lurking creatures, "I don't know what's worse: seeing them or not seeing them." Just knowing the unknown may be near is dread enough...