Word: pange
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kooi Pang received his visa to enter the country on Sept. 29 and traveled from Malaysia to Harvard’s Design School the next day—arriving three weeks late, on the final day of registration...
...audience is desperate for Sixth Sense-style thrills, whether or not they make any other sense. A young woman (the fetching Angelica Lee), blind since childhood, has her sight restored with a pair of eyes from an unknown donor. Suddenly she sees ... dead people. Twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, who directed the spiffy actioner Bangkok Dangerous, settle this time for stock characterizations and flabby scare devices. The only thing that jolted audiences out of their seats was the sudden deep rumbling of the Dolby sound system whenever a ghost appeared. It must have been the Ghost of Hong Kong...
After Lane's first tryst with her lover, the camera sits quietly on her, displaying her quicksilver emotions: a pang of guilt, a flicker of pleasure, finally tears and hysterical laughter. Lane downplays this acting feat. "I was tired, and that's how I freak out," she says. "Now I know what I look like when I do it." Gere, however, is impressed. "I've never seen an actress pull off something like that," he says. "It's one of the great scenes ever filmed." We'll let the hyperbole stand...
...some Jew” Omar tried to kill. As Laura writes, “There were moments when the journalist in me took over, when I listened to an account from the shooter’s life and was charmed. Then I would remember my father with a pang and think—but you tried to kill him.” Nonetheless, she finds herself becoming unnervingly comfortable with them, and begins having the family smuggle her letters to Omar. The climax is a finale so unexpected and breathtaking that it would be entirely implausible as fiction...
...moment in a kidnapping, as one of the captors felt a pang of discomfort. The American backpacker had climbed willingly into the conspirators' van, lured by the false promise of dinner with a local Delhi family. Now it was time to tell him he was a hostage. The crisis of conscience was short-lived, but it was significant enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail. "All of a sudden, I felt terribly embarrassed," he wrote. So embarrassed that, hoping to evade responsibility, he begged his co-conspirator in Hindi, "Kidnap me also...