Word: millerisms
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...those documentaries that tells you everything you already know about its subject. It features many talking musicological heads, falling back in insight-free awe at the composer's apparently genial genius (a refreshing exception is the crankish Jonathan Miller, who has directed many a Mozart opera). Since Mozart traveled endlessly in search of gigs - 25,000 miles all told - the director, Phil Grabsky gives us many useless out-the-window shots of his own car chugging along modern European highways as he duplicates those journeys, many sequences of contemporary citizens wandering aimlessly and inelegantly in front of buildings Mozart visited...
Discussions of the U.S. auto industry's woes often break down into something like those old Miller Lite tastes-great/less-filling debates: The cars aren't good enough! The pension and health-care costs are too high...
Medvedev's pro-Putin maneuvering and his willingness to leverage supply power has made him a top gun at Gazprom. And more important, he who controls Gazpromexport controls Gazprom, says Mikhail Krutikhin, chief analyst for RusEnergy, Russia's authoritative energy think tank. Though Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller is also a Putin man, Medvedev was installed directly by the Kremlin independently of Miller, Krutikhin maintains. Both toe the same line, but the Kremlin runs them separately. Mutual mistrust makes for cooperation, to paraphrase Stalin...
...accent; he has the kind of calm, even voice that must come in handy for delivering bad news to patients. Lounging in the kitchen of the large, neat house he shares with his wife and two children, he wears a cable-knit sweater and a baseball cap that says Miller High Life on it, which he keeps on even inside...
...People call HUPD because of loud parties, too. People didn’t call HUPD because they were African American,” Cabot resident Jay S. Miller ’09 said in a phone interview...