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...visits. Even the Stones, grizzled human petri dishes that they are, were frightened away by the very environment you call home. At the moment, despite the Health Department's explanation of the Amoy Gardens outbreak, the WHO shows no signs of lifting its travel advisory. But even as we mope along with our swabs and bleach solutions and top-off our U-pipes, a flicker of hope appears in the daily infection numbers we regard like a cabalistic talisman. Last Friday marked the first time Hong Kong registered more SARS discharges than new patients since the outbreak began. Schools...
...Phil also thought my mom was wrong about the way I express myself when I'm upset: I kind of mope and wait for people to notice instead of just telling them how I feel with words like "sharing," "intimacy," "relationship" and "makeup sex." Further refuting my mom, Dr. Phil said, "One of my favorite songs is by Ronan Keating. He says, 'You say the most when you say nothing at all.'" I wish Dr. Phil had been around to argue with my mom for me when...
...evidence of a direct link to the militant Saudi millionaire is far from clear along the trail that began with Ressam. The feds figure he was just a "mope"--G-man jargon for an expendable figure--an amateur with the least skills who gets the job with the most exposure. That explains why he was nervous enough to catch Customs' attention as he came off the ferry at Port Angeles, Wash. It also explains why he was careless enough to leave a paper trail. Ressam's pockets produced a scrap of paper scribbled with the name "Ghani." That took...
That, of course, is the essence of his appeal on radio. But the essence of film acting is demanding to be loved; Stern, with an occasional puppy-dog mope onscreen, shows himself willing to grovel for his new medium. "I was full of bravado when I first got into this," says Stern, who had never acted before, at least in the Stella Adler sense. "I was going, 'Oh, these actors are a______s, and it's so easy." Nevertheless, he panicked on the first day of shooting, begging to improvise his part in a more radio-like fashion before finally...
...keeps you busy and you won't go nuts," she says. "Some people stay home and they just mope. I don't have time for that...