Word: nodding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sweeping doses of strings and bells. “It’s a lot rockier,” Woodward said about the album in concert. “It would be neat, someday, to do an orchestral type thing, think guys?” The other band members nod in approval...
Cavini allows herself to play with the tones to keep Game from drifting into familiarity. A murder scene on a train—which seems set up as a nod to the first Highsmith adaptation, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 Strangers on a Train—is played as screwball comedy in the finest His Girl Friday tradition, and I began to forget about the brutality of the game and enjoy the antics. I was as caught up in the moment as Jonathon, which makes his subsequent fear all the more palpable. And then Cavini’s game...
...just received a new $50,000 silver RV that serves as an emergency-operations command center, paid for with federal dollars. When I ask a group of 22 fire fighters in Casper whether they feel insulted by suggestions that they should get less homeland-security money, they all nod in agreement. "No one can say Casper can't be a terrorist target," says fire fighter Roy Buck. Taking the point further, Peter Beering, terrorism-preparedness chief in Indianapolis, Ind., writes in First to Arrive, a Harvard collection of essays on emergency preparedness, "In an era of satellite television ... attacking...
...Islamic terrorism win the Spanish election? If you support the Iraq war and don't turn apoplectic when hearing the word Bush, you will nod vigorously and reach for your Spanish dictionary to look up appeasement. But if you hate both the war and the Bushies, you will argue thus: "A vast majority of Spaniards have always opposed their country's entanglement in Iraq. The vote merely expressed the will of the people." But this is a moot debate. Look at the issue from the terrorists' perspective. Having timed the bloodbath for the election, they scored beyond their wildest expectations...
...recourse has been to become a pop culture imposter. Through shows caught at a friend’s house, through tidbits garnered from overheard conversations, and through—God praise it—People magazine, I have cobbled together a false personal television history. I can smile and nod at the appropriate times. I can chuckle at the proper jokes. If I’m feeling really savvy, I can toss in the odd Friends reference. I become, in essence, a laugh track...