Word: prods
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Letting a little air out of Larry’s ego in front of the press, Wessel says, was one of the weapons that Rubin used to “prod Larry into being wiser about how he treated people in public...
...score. For those who knew and loved the song beforehand, that the Shins’ “New Slang” is forever destined to be “that song from Garden State” is a humorous tribute to their good taste, and usually a prod to remind the listener that the opening doohs and dahs graced a McDonald’s commercial long before Natalie Portman’s oft-quoted pronouncement that the Shins music “will change your life...
...pensions to be fully funded and called for even stiffer premiums for companies whose plans are in the worst shape. "A lot of companies are looking to get out of these plans anyway," says Dan McGinn, a pension consultant in Anaheim, Calif. "This might be just the prod they need...
...based on an Ariosto comedy based on an old folk tale, the picture is pretty far off any kind of base ... The plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so, if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better. Handsome singer Keel, who appears to be a sort of Nelson Eddy with muscles, and is currently Hollywood's leading graduate of the Broadway school...
AASG has sought to prod the United Nations toward action by mounting letter-writing campaigns directed at representatives from countries that have blocked the Security Council from imposing economic sanctions on Sudan...