Word: meanness
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...challenge becomes the fulcrum on which their future relationship hangs. As the movie shifts into a sort of precoital pillow talk between straight men, it's surprisingly suspenseful. Will they go ahead with it, and if so, what will it mean to them? What will it mean for Ben's marriage? Who gets to dominate? Ostensibly, Ben and Andrew's conversations are about sexual boundaries and the ways in which straight men, even enlightened ones, recoil at the thought of gay sex (male, that is), but they are just as much about the limits of adult friendships and the boxes...
...Last year I did a movie called Milk. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Milk was the name of a guy, not my favorite drink. I mean, I love milk the drink. Chocolate milk. But never strawberry milk. I did the movie anyway, and now gay people can have jobs...
...Alaska, though, her answer could mean exactly what it says - that she doesn't yet know what she'll be doing in 2012. Here, you make each day from the materials at hand. "My intention" in the coming months, she said in her resignation speech, "is to go out and to campaign for people who can effect change all across our nation." She added that "I can't do that from the governor's desk" because enemies stirred up by her sudden prominence - and orchestrated, she believes, by the Obama White House - would bury her in unfounded ethics complaints. (Read...
...transformer short-circuited. Although nobody was hurt and the lights were back on by nightfall, the accident has reignited the debate over nuclear power in Europe's most vehemently anti-nuclear country. But as Germany gears up for federal elections in September, a generational shift in attitude could mean that opposition to nuclear power isn't the vote winner it once...
...Chinalco deal died mainly for economic reasons, but that didn't mean the Chinese were happy about it. In fact, an investment banker close to the proposed deal says "they were furious - not just the company, but the government." The banker notes that Chinalco CEO Xiong Weiping was in Australia offering to amend the terms of the deal in order to salvage it just before Rio demurred...