Word: nods
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...music, West's juxtapositions make your head nod. In life, they can sometimes make it spin. "I came to Prague for this church," West says in the near whisper he uses when not standing in front of a microphone. "I scouted it, researched it. Ever since my accident"--in 2002 he crashed his car and cracked his jaw in three places--"I've had a thing about angels, and you can't get statues of angels or architecture like this in the States." One minute later, he stands in front of a video camera, sets his legs...
DIED. JOE RANFT, 45, respected Pixar story artist who served as a key creative force behind many of the company's hit animated films, including Toy Story, which earned him an Oscar nod in 1995; in a car accident; in Mendocino County, Calif. Ranft did voice-over work on many of his films, most famously as Heimlich, the corpulent Teutonic caterpillar in A Bug's Life...
...what experts say is a�welcome nod to common sense, the CIA, having spent billions over the years on undercover agents, phone taps and the like, plans to create a large wing in the spookhouse dedicated to sorting through various forms of data that are not secret--such as research articles, religious tracts, websites, even phone books--but yet could be vital to national security. Senior intelligence officials tell TIME that CIA Director Porter Goss plans to launch by Oct. 1 an "open source" unit that will greatly expand on the work of the respected but cash-strapped office that...
...asking that John Paul's "cause" proceed without the usual five-year wait. Thus Vatican watchers regard the exemption--which Benedict announced personally, in Latin, to roars of approval from a group of seminarians--as not simply a bow to overwhelming lay sentiment but also a kind of political nod to the Cardinals in the name of their collective mentor...
...cater entirely to the adult audience. Lynda Carter, playing Principal Powers, might directly call out her superhero connection— “I’m not Wonder Woman you know,” she remarks to some detentionees—but few children are likely to nod at the reference. Better yet are the five minutes of nurse time by Cloris Leachman, although sadly her presence might be overlooked by even the older viewers...