Word: plugs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...it’s like to be a deaf person. For inspiration, he turned to his own deaf father, “who can’t hear a lick,” Harris says.On the set, he went even further. “I really did pretty much plug up my ears,” he recalls. “So I really had to pay attention to people when they were speaking to really understand what they were saying.”Another wholly fictional addition to the film is the character of a female copyist named Anna...
...same store also carried mosquito spray and those bug zappers that you plug into a power outlet, hoping it will kill all the mosquitoes in the room. Having been massacred by mosquitoes the night before despite smearing myself with repellent, I piled half a dozen zappers onto the counter, along with a loaf of bread, some cheese and crackers and some bottles of water. The woman at the register proceeded to wipe the dust off each item in turn before ringing...
...shoulder from potential donors. "There have been donors in negotiations who pull back immediately," says James K. Ballinger, director of the Phoenix Art Museum, which obtained two Georgia O'Keeffe paintings through fractional giving. Lerner says he's advising clients to hold off on donations and has pulled the plug on a $20 million painting. "I don't go through a long explanation. I just tell the client, 'You can't do this any longer,'" he says. "They say, 'Fine...
...guys feel about this, and do you think there will be one for you guys in the future?C: I think that if someone else wanted to set it up we definitely wouldn’t object. We also want to put in a plug that we’re looking for interns. If you don’t include that in the article you can have the info to yourself and you can take advantage of it. You could by default get it. 12.FM: What would being an intern for you guys entail?C: It would probably just involve...
...Brian Howey, who has written the Indiana-based Howey Political Report since 1994, the year Hostettler was first elected, wrote last week that the congressman "is signaling to key 8th [District] allies that he is essentially pulling the plug on his troubled re-election bid." Hostettler responded the next day with an enthusiastic, if vague, denial, and said he's not quitting the race. Since then, Hostettler has increased his public appearances in and around Evansville, stepping beyond the tight-knit circuit of evangelical Christians on whom he has always most depended - and, some critics say, focused too narrowly...