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...Avatars need not represent players' real-life personas. Online, Laura Skye works as a club DJ and is 6 feet tall, weighs 112 lb. and has a penchant for skin-tight cowgirl outfits. In reality, Taylor, an unemployed former waitress, is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 224 lb. and prefers T shirts and leggings...
...sitcom director couldn’t have cast a better set of characters: There was Bush, the prodigal-son-turned-born-again with a characteristic smirk and a penchant for butchering the English language; Cheney, with all the charm of a superhero villain and the mannerisms to match; and the entire gang—from Rumsfeld to Ashcroft, Rove to Gonzalez—each with his own set of laughable, unlovable idiosyncrasies...
...least experienced men ever to assume the presidency. Before entering the White House, Lincoln had spent just a handful of years in the Illinois state legislature and a single term in Congress. Many commentators have noted the parallels between Lincoln and Obama: the Illinois roots, the penchant for inspiring oratory, the historic nature of both candidacies. (Lest the connection be overlooked, Obama launched his presidential campaign in Springfield, Ill., Lincoln's hometown.) We could do worse than to have Obama follow Lincoln's path, knitting together a fractured country, raising our sights from the mundane to the sublime. Still...
...work by rummaging through old collections of photographs. In the film, photographs often prompt unusual ideas. A series of pictures with blacked-out figures calls memory’s role in photography into question, while short interviews with Dutch citizens about their favorite images probe the human penchant for collecting what others find meaningless. Throughout the film, visuals frequently take the place of verbal explanations. Tan periodically interrupts her documentary work with a panning shot of a man holding a mirror. As he walks, the mirror reflects the landscape around him, evoking what Tan refers...
Uncle Ted, the Senator with an avuncular penchant for gift-giving - $3.4 billion in federal earmarks for Alaska since 1995 alone - has been convicted of receiving a few freebies of his own. Stevens, 84, was found guilty Monday on seven felony counts for failing to report $250,000 in improper gifts he received from Bill Allen, the disgraced executive of an oil-services company...