Word: panning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...success playing without the clock. They usually come up with some bizarre idea that doesn’t pan out,” he says. “They can’t get [check]mate in three moves, so I just start a few moves behind and catch up soon enough...
...waved through on their way to a ceremony remarkable even in a land used to strange and ancient rites. Near the village of Guava, high in the mountains of central Bougainville, they gathered on a plateau. After a procession of traditional dancers swaying to the music of pan pipes, marching militia and strutting chiefs, two men mounted a stage in the center of the clearing. Bare-chested, in a floral head-dress, grass skirt and neatly cleaned tan boots was Francis Ona, leader of the region's independence fighters; alongside him stood one of Papua New Guinea's most wanted...
...state-owned companies, with the aim of cutting references to China and boosting Taiwan's sense of itself. That enraged Beijing, worried the U.S.?Taipei's main backer, but which also enjoys good relations with China?and seems to have backfired with the electorate. "Chen actually stimulated the pan-blue supporters to come out and vote because they worried about his getting a double mandate," says Philip Yang, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University in Taipei...
...newest film, director Marc Forster makes a drastic break from his previous work, Monster’s Ball. Johnny Depp plays James “J.M.” Barrie, in the process of writing his masterwork Peter Pan. Like most of Depp’s characters, Barrie is more than a little strange. His last play was a flop; his marriage has deteriorated to the point that he and his wife (played by Radha Mitchell) barely speak to one another; and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he prefers the company of his dog and his own imagination to most of his peers...
...Happening was compiled by Vinita M. Alexander, Mary A. Brazelton, Theodore B. Bressman, Julie S. Greenberg, Steven N. Jacobs, Bryant Jones, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Amelia E. Lester, Kristina M. Moore, Alexandra B. Moss, Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey, Tony A. Onah, Deborah H.M. Pan, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, David B. Rochelson, Zachary M. Seward, Emer Craig Myrick Vaughn, Julie Y Zhou...