Word: prisely
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...into each other's orbit, the two soon experience outside pulls. Isa acquires a morbid interest in the comatose girl, whose tragedy allows awed and then self-righteous absorption. Marie clings far too long to a rich, womanising slickster (Gregoire Colin as Chris) who sees a needfulness he can prise open into a raw gaping masochistic dependence. Reading faces, you might judge Isa the worse off, with chipped-tooth and scar-bifurcated eyebrow, but you realize nervewracking and nervous Marie has borne a more interior brand of wear and tear...
...boys off the Mir (in case any more satellites decided to fly into it) ? and Ted Turner pumping Kofi Annan with a billion-dollar handshake (in case the U.N. should collapse for want of Time-Warner shares). Even the Pentagon got jittery when the Oslo accord tried to prise a pile of landmines from its stiff little fingers: We're the world's policemen, sulked the top brass, and if we can't play with our exploding toys, we're going home...
...girl had dyed her hair crimson," he said. "We gave her [a prise] on the spot...
...admitted as evidance. "I don't know for the life of me how this is relevant," he said, and added: "I've made so many rulings in this case, if I haven't made an error by now I ought to get the Pulitzer Prise." -By Kurt Andersen...
...Only through extended exposure to the candidate was Barrett able to penetrate the reserve. For example, Reagan talked candidly with Barrett last week about the abrupt firing of Campaign Manager John Sears. "To someone following the Reagan camp so closely, the departure did not come as a complete sur prise," said Barrett. "Two weeks earlier you could detect a decided cooling of the Reagan-Sears relationship." Barrett therefore had a head start in investigating the shake-up and even managed to inter view William Casey before he was in stalled as Sears' successor. Barrett also found an opportunity...