Word: pang
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ring. Ringu earned nearly $20 million, the sequel took in double that, and the Hollywood remake grossed $230 million. Viewers found themselves face to face with a new Asian beast: scare flicks that kept them suspended in fear, instead of grossed out by gore. As a result, says Danny Pang, co-director of the Hong Kong horror blockbuster The Eye, "People realized that horror movies don't have to be B movies. They've finally broken into the mainstream...
...drove with three Currier hallmates to New York City for Game 7 of the ALCS, I felt a pang of regret that I would not be watching the game with my fellow Currierites. My friends agreed—here we were, on the road to what would become the most epic sporting event of our lives, and there was something pulling us back, though of course we wanted to be at the game more than anything. We kept in telephone contact with the GLM the entire game, not only to share our joy, but also so that we could hear...
...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...Pang says the new requirement has marred his experience even after making it to the United States by a narrow margin. He encountered the system immediately after stepping off the plane when he returned from a trip to Barcelona he took this past spring—his first foray out of the country since he barely made...