Word: pursuits
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...interview with chat-show host Andrew Denton last year, Hogan confessed his disdain for acting. "It's a rather childish pursuit," he said. "'I pretend I'm someone, and I'm, you know ... really good at pretending.' And I don't sort of get on with people who polish their craft and go to the edge of the envelope and take it a bit too seriously." Watching Strange Bedfellows, you wish he'd pretend a bit more - loosen up and have some fun. Because his eyes are beginning to lose their twinkle...
Donning outfits and attitudes that seemed more appropriate for another type of “working girl,” the contestants seemed all too willing to throw their respectability out the window in the pursuit of victory. Given the task of selling lemonade on the streets of New York, the female team wore extra tight shirts and included complimentary kisses on the cheek with every glass. When challenged to boost sales at Planet Hollywood, the women again fetched the street-walker wear out of their wardrobes and begged men on the street to buy them shots inside the restaurant...
...Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists the help of the eponymous triplets—former scat singers turned household-item instrumentalists—in liberating Champion from the clutches of a diminutive wine magnate. A marvelous fusion of color, music, and caricature, each splendid offbeat...
...context of college, being Indian went from being a constant but unexamined presence in my life to a deliberately chosen pursuit, an aspect of myself that could explore in concentrated portions...
...generation, or longer, while in the interim Sharon has won U.S. support for consolidating Israel's grip on settlements that every U.S. administration, including this one, had previously defined as an obstacle to peace. From the moment he assumed office, Sharon had made clear that he opposed the pursuit of a final peace agreement with the Palestinians, pressing instead for a long-term interim arrangement. And in Sharon's mind, that perspective now carries White House support...