Word: nose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister says Gore's critics shouldn't forget that his salute to "reformasi" Monday was plenty grounded in economic policy. It was Anwar's chumminess with the IMF that got him in trouble, he says, and it's Mahathir's nose-thumbing capital controls, not his long-time thuggery, that have the U.S. so riled. And notice that Mahathir's Asian counterparts were careful to stick up for APEC -- not Mahathir. "He's isolated himself so much from the rest of the region," says McAllister, "that the U.S. really doesn't have much to worry about...
...Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is a man in a rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the famous discard as they pass...
Beads of sweat break out on your forehead and slowly travel down your face, into your nose, stinging your eyes. Your hands tremble and fumble with the pages. Yet still you remain transfixed. You read without a sense of yourself--aware only of the feel of paper and the putrid smell of filth and excrement clinging to the words. Occasionally the pages, white and luminous, drag you so deep inside their parameters that for brief moments, you literally imagine you are one of the victims, one of the inhuman, one of the blind. A cold fear clings to each word...
Goldberg smirked at the assertion, joking thatsomething "flew up my nose." Goldberg said onlythat "it's great to see that someone can create afrenzy the way Oprah has, but it's unfortunatethat it sort of backfired on the movie...
...contrast between the great size of the canvases (One is more than 17 ft. across) and the intricacy of their microforms plays its part too. There is no ideal viewing distance; you must step back to grasp their size and overall energy, but you must also put your nose in them to appreciate their details. Just like the real world, one is tempted...