Word: paled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...morning, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) heavyweights Mitsuo Horiuchi, Taro Aso and Taku Yamasaki vowed to intervene. While Koizumi briefed the emperor at the Imperial Palace that evening, the three leaders and other LDP bosses confronted Takenaka behind closed doors in the Diet building. Takenaka left the meeting looking visibly pale. "This was poor leadership from Koizumi," says Mamoru Yamazaki, chief economist at Barclays Capital Management. "Takenaka was accused by the leading politicians of the Diet, and the Prime Minister wasn't protecting him." That evening, Takenaka said the publication of his plan was postponed till the end of October, though...
...products from coffee pots to vacuum cleaners. But aluminum seems to find its most frequent expression as seating. There's an eclectic range of chairs in the Design Museum show, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair, designs by Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck's pale green barstool made for German film director Wim Wenders' house. The most eye-catching is Australian Marc Newson's Lockheed Lounge, a sensuous plastic shape covered with riveted aluminum panels. The metal has even worked its way into fashion. Spanish design iconoclast Paco Rabanne made a 1968 minidress from aluminum rectangles...
...between. Charade starred two of the most popular actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood: the luminous Audrey Hepburn and the debonair, adorably-cleft chinned Cary Grant. And as Sydney Pollock learned from his remake of Sabrina in 1997, even today’s stars tend to pale against the luster of yesteryear’s celebrities...
...announcing the new project, the trade and industry department cited a study by the International Institute for Management Development that showed standards of management and efficiency in British business pale in comparison to those of its economic competitors—Germany, the U.S., Canada and France...
...Piovani, all of whom worked with him on Life is Beautiful. From the start Benigni has said he wanted to produce a literal version of Pinocchio. Italian critics exiting the preview noted that he had certainly been faithful to the text, but wondered whether his onscreen antics didn't pale beside Benigni's own adventures last week, which were classic Collodi. Benigni used to be applauded as a scourge of the Italian establishment, but many of his fans are now starting to wonder whether the impish director isn't forgetting out of what wood he was carved. Once an arch...