Word: pallor
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...assistant director] would be like, 'What do you think you are - Kubrick?'" Somehow, though, these two kids from an Australian film school, working on their first feature, got it done, and matched the ingenuity of the plot with a slick, sick visual style. (The film's green pallor suggests that Wan, an ethnic Chinese born in Malaysia, had been watching a few of the Hong Kong dramas shot by Christopher Doyle...
...relieved to hear this that I got teary, as did Seth?s family. Years of clinical experience told me that Seth did not have leukemia. He had no pallor or bruising, his spleen and his lymph nodes weren?t enlarged, and the history of his illness didn?t match. I knew he didn?t have leukemia, but what mattered was that they didn?t. A blood count performed two minutes later alleviated everyone?s fears, and after hugs all around, Seth?s family left the office rather giddily...
...dropped 12 percent the following year.Last month, University Hall was once more the site of an anti-administration revolt—with more than a dozen professors confronting President Lawrence H. Summers at a full Faculty meeting Feb. 7, and ultimately producing his ouster.Will the Summers storm cast its pallor on the College’s sky-high yield rate—the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll?Last spring, Harvard’s yield topped the Ivies at 78.5 percent—almost a full 10 percentage points better than next-place Yale. And the director...
...generators keep the TVs going through the daily blackouts. With school out and summer heat above 110°F every day, young people stay up to watch TV in the cool of the night and then sleep till noon. Many Baghdad kids, notes the doctor, have acquired a pasty yellow pallor. Some are getting fat from lack of exercise. His son, an engineer who refused to work for Saddam and now cannot find a job, is hugely obese from years of idleness. The doctor chafes that he cannot use the Internet to refresh his medical knowledge. After years of being...
...acting is full of satisfactions and surprises. Law has movie-star musk and the craft to fill his peasant garb with a heroic sensitivity. Kidman seems uncomfortable early on, but she takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight. Portman lends a tender ferocity to the widow aching for the presence--the memory, really--of a good man's body next to hers. As for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, voting is now officially closed; Zellweger should take it by acclamation...