Word: prop
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...season upending such TV truisms as an infectious-diseases specialist--whose cleverness is matched only by his astonishing rudeness--on Fox's hit medical drama House, the No. 9 prime-time show among women this year. "Perfection is intensely annoying," says Laurie, who, as if to demonstrate, carries his prop cane in the wrong hand, according to the show's physical-therapist viewers. "Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life...
...Consequently, a more flexible renminbi mechanism raises the odds of an Asian shift out of dollars, in effect removing the artificial bid for dollar-denominated assets that has prevented U.S. interest rates from rising more sharply. This will undoubtedly put pressure on the interest-rate prop supporting U.S. asset markets?especially property. Asset-dependent American consumers may slow their spending as a result. While this may be painful, it may also be the only way for the U.S. and the rest of the world to come to grips with the U.S.'s glaring foreign-trade and current-account imbalances. China...
...mocking "gibberish spouting" method actors. "When you're playing Hamlet, and you and Horatio are up on the battlements, Horatio says, 'But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.' Well, it isn't! You're looking at Charlie the prop man with a fag in his gob. It's pretend, for God's sake...
...nearer to the sprawled body, I am somewhat ashamed to say that I, too, hesitated to stop and help her. And in my moment of hesitation, a man behind me rushed to her aid, activating an emergency assistance box a few feet away. After that, I helped the man prop the woman up and give her some water until the paramedics arrived a few minutes later...
...technicians with a new idea: "colorizing" the black-and-white films of Hollywood's Golden Age through computer wizardry. The film is copied onto video and broken down into gradations of gray. An "art director" sits at a console and chooses the colors for each face, dress and prop, which the computerized "paintbrush" adds frame by frame. (Cost per film: about $180,000.) Voiląh! Jimmy Stewart's Christmas tree in It's a Wonderful Life is as green as greenbacks...