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...creatively multilingual Seven Years in Tibet, Brad Pitt begs such a question, as he has his way with an allegedly Austrian accent through widespread and wanton application of generic "movie accent" elements like long vowels and rolled R's. Yet this phonetic plum pudding, a synthetic dialect of sorts, fits the story's cross-cultural spirit. Ultimately, the blooming of emotion that marks the central transformation of Pitt's character in the face of Tibetan culture makes an otherwise sappy moral and politically correct focus much more palatable...
...metaphor I used was a nectarine and it was inspired by a silly conversation I had at work with some guy who told me that the fruit is a cross between a peach and a plum," she says. "I used the plum to represent his grandmother who is dark and a peach to represent the slave master...
...wonderful for UCLA, terrible for Harvard and a plum for Al Carnesale," said Richard J. Zeckhauser, Ramsey professor of political economy at the Kennedy School of Government and a "good friend" of Carnesale...
...meeting with a call to action: having halted a twenty-year slide in membership, the union is now poised to sink fully one-third of its $60 million budget into a national organizing drive. Before leaving town, Gephardt took the opportunity to offer the union still another small plum, knocking NAFTA at a news conference, and telling reporters that it "was not working properly" and "needed to be improved." While Gephardt is decidedly an underdog in the early running for 2000, the AFL-CIO may view him as a way to keep Gore and Clinton off-balance as it continues...
...meeting with a call to action: having halted a twenty-year slide in membership, the union is now poised to sink fully one-third of its $60 million budget into a national organizing drive. Before leaving town, Gephardt took the opportunity to offer the union still another small plum, knocking NAFTA at a news conference, and telling reporters that it "was not working properly" and "needed to be improved." While Gephardt is decidedly an underdog in the early running for 2000, the AFL-CIO may view him as a way to keep Gore and Clinton off-balance as it continues...