Word: maw
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...waiting to get discovered. Of course, there are plenty of entertainment executives out there who are very willing to discover these starlets. (And even more men who are happy to pretend they wield the necessary power.) Still, I’m consoled by the fact that a bona fide MAW works at my local branch. A while back she had told me of her desire to act, so I asked if she’d heard that Katharine Hepburn had died. “Oh my God, that’s awful,” she said...
...fitted with magnets that fasten unaided - and equally swift transitions in mood and tone, as the scenes shift between postwar Brooklyn and wartime Poland. Fortunately for audiences and for Kirchschlager, she rose magnificently to the challenge. Though the opera itself, a four-hour-long work by British composer Nicholas Maw, has received mixed reviews, Kirchschlager's performance has won unanimous raves. The Sunday Times praised her "extraordinary eloquence." The Baltimore Sun said she "could not be more suited to the title role, physically, theatrically, vocally. If there were Oscars in opera, she'd win one as surely as Meryl Streep...
...tale of articulate people with the gift of hurting the ones they care about, Full Frontal reminds viewers that there's room for stories about grownups--their wayward loves; their career blips; their relation to the media maw; their takes on race, pets, outsize vibrators and Brad Pitt--told with inventive wit in a dozen distinctive voices...
...activation of the mouth-frothing, feed-me, feed-me, 24-7 omnivore. Television news has become a sleek, conscienceless predator that works the family beaches and devours everything - high history, low scandal, license plates, dog bones, your private life if you are unlucky enough to fall into the maw. Who would want to be famous in this society...
...This is man who has thrown six interest rate cuts totaling 275 basis points into the gaping maw of this slowdown, and he hasn't heard back from any of them yet. The data rolling in has gone from "unrelentingly bad" to "mixed," yet the Fed still doesn't know when its rate-cutting days are through. And though history seems likely to find that merely avoiding a recession after that global-sized Internet bubble-burst is a pretty impressive feat, Greenspan is still hearing from critics that he may have delayed the recovery by waiting until last January...