Word: motioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...evening with three strong competitors would be even more fun if we knew just how close each race was. Alas, the Motion Picture Academy does not release its tabulations, even those a half-century old. So we cannot know, for example, how close the vote was two years ago between "Saving Private Ryan" and "Shakespeare in Love"; or whether the count was exactly tied in 1969 when Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand were both declared winners in the Best Actress category. This smells of cronyism and corruption! By petitioning, Americans are allowed access to incriminating documents in government lockboxes...
...party. Unlike regular folks, for whom some pizza or Chinese takeout round the TV is suffice, many celebrities gravitate to one of the viewing parties set up by charities. The blend of a big occasion and stars happy for exposure is a perfect fit - Hollywood's version of perpetual motion...
...kainolophobia: ... novelty katagelophobia: ... ridicule kathisophobia: ... sitting down kenophobia: ... empty spaces kinetophobia : ... motion kleptophobia: ... stealing kopophobia: ... fatigue koniophobia: ... dust kyphophobia: ... stooping...
...watch every year, the slow, predictable rituals that mark another year of our leisure time past. We want the In Memoriam roll. We want Dino De Laurentiis receiving the Irving Thalberg Home Audience Mass Sedation Award. We want the speech from the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We want that four hours of tedium, the better to set off that one perverse moment of total surprise...
...keep it afloat. (The market obliged by sucking water for two straight days.) And because the central banker with America's highest Q rating thus entered into a game of economic-policy chicken with the decade's other breakout star: Wall Street. And, finally, because he has set in motion a series of moves that will shape the economic destiny...