Word: pungently
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...because the end of the movie hints at a sequel. But first the director has eyes on a remake, or an updating, of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with either Robert Downey Jr. or Russell Crowe as the drug-using supersleuth of 221B Baker Street. Count on Ritchie to find pungent thuggery in foggy London town and to juice up the plot with Victorian-age rocknrollas...
...Badarpur village, with its dusty, pungent streets and tumbledown tenements, is far removed from the confident affluence of Nehru Place. Inside a tiny, cluttered room lit by a single tube-light, nine girls are waiting for their bhaiyya, - 'older brother' in Hindi. An all-girl class is rare; parents who are unable to afford education for their children usually shelve daughters' education first. According to UN figures, 42 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not in school in India. The national literacy rate of girls over seven years is 54%, compared to 75% for boys...
...documentary from the famously godless comedian Bill Maher and the director of Borat creates hopes of a rowdier, sharper exposé than this one. A series of impious questions posed to believers of every stripe, Religulous (soft g) has its funny and offensive moments, but it lacks the pungent personality and editorial skills of any Michael Moore movie...
...pungent smell hung in Islamabad's air from the gently smouldering ruins of the Marriott Hotel, Pakistani officials released their preliminary findings into what they called "the biggest explosion in Pakistani history". The bomb attack in the heart of the capital has left 53 people dead and 266 injured, according to the Interior Ministry...
...that if you start to wander around, you never know what you'll find. Case in point: I was walking outside of the table tennis venue at Peking University this week when I saw this sign - "Gluing Tent." Actually, I smelled it before I saw it - that sweetly sharp, pungent odor of Elmer's gone wild. With fond memories of those grade school glue highs, I popped in, hoping for a much-needed week two lift, and maybe some bonding moments with a few fellow sniffers, and saw a long table, a dozen or so chairs and one very happy...