Word: milling
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...There continues to be no better symbol of the two countries' inability to bridge their differences than the Yasukuni Shrine. In Tokyo this week, the rumor mill was working overtime, with suggestions that Koizumi has agreed to skip a visit this year as a gesture of good faith to the Chinese. That may or may not turn out to be the case. Yasukuni is controversial in Japan?some lawmakers say trips to the shrine are counterproductive. But others emphasize that those Japanese politicians who want to go to Yasukuni will never be compelled to stop simply because China asks them...
When the bus arrived in Hopkinton, the runners were left with three hours before the start time. Madigan-Curtis took the opportunity to mill around the impromptu runners’ village, comprised of tents and a stage, that was set up in the area...
...year-old son Jason in St. Paul and, according to friends, spends most of his time working. Even when he is not working, he is working. He wanders away from a Christmas party at Roy Blount's house, and walks for a while alone through the snowy streets of Mill River, Mass. That Saturday his monologue turns an unexpected corner, and there one of his characters is, walking alone through the snowy streets of Lake Wobegon...
...strung-out singer-guitarist with the pop group Crosby, Stills and Nash; on drug, weapon and hit-and-run charges, after he allegedly crashed his car into a fence, fled the scene and was later found to have a .45-cal. pistol and cocaine paraphernalia in the vehicle; in Mill Valley, Calif. It was his third arrest on drug-related charges in the past year...
...dramatic crisis. Everyone in Twice in a Lifetime is decent. Harry only reluctantly concedes the validity of his need for emotional renewal, and he never entirely forgives himself the pain he causes. He is, in fact, as surprised as anyone when, while celebrating his 50th birthday with his fellow mill hands, he falls passionately in love with a barmaid (Ann-Margret). Stunned, Kate is tempted toward but fights off a state of permanent victimization. Helping her to remobilize are a married daughter (Amy Madigan), who ferociously expresses the anger her mother represses, and a younger sibling (Ally Sheedy), whose wedding...