Word: pleasante
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...Those pleasant achievements, or happy accidents, kindled hope for Bedtime Stories, the season's only live-action comedy with a kid-approved PG rating. Well, as Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers." After sitting through this fractious fairy tale, we feel as plucked as a Christmas goose. The star and his director have surrendered to their old bad habits, in a movie that will nonetheless provide - as Sandler's character does - a balky babysitter for children in search of a new-style fairy tale...
...Pennsylvania native, Vilsack graduated from Hamilton College and Albany Law School. He moved to his wife’s hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he was elected mayor in 1987 after the city’s then-mayor was killed...
...after the mayor of Mount Pleasant, the Iowa town where Vilsack lived, was shot and killed, the mayor's father asked him to run for the office. He did in 1987, won and later went on to serve in the Iowa State Senate beginning in 1992. In 1998 he became the first Democratic governor in Iowa in 32 years, winning after being behind by some 20 points in the polls. He served a total of two terms...
...Shrek the Musical doesn't really do the trick. It's pleasant enough but lacks the theatrical polish and imaginative leaps of the best Disney shows. And I think the letdown may have been inevitable...
...months now, the only silver lining for many amid the gathering economic gloom has been the pleasant sensation of filling their cars with ever cheaper gasoline. But that relief at the gas pump has slashed the revenues of the oil-producing countries, and on Wednesday they pushed back when the 11 oil ministers of the Opec cartel agreed to cut their combined output by about 2.2 million barrels a day starting January 1. The biggest production cut in Opec's 48-year history is an emergency measure aimed at reversing the precipitous slide in world oil prices, which the cartel...