Word: redeemability
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...just keeps driving his movie right on through them. What's true of him is true of his actors too. De Niro pitches his performance on the edge of psychopathy, where menace and comedy very effectively coexist. But it is Gooding who does the most to redeem the movie, tempering his determination with a patient sweetness and casually stated masculine conviction that's thoroughly winning. To borrow a phrase, "Here's looking...
...Seuss is worth 1/2 point, Tolstoy 130 points, and students can redeem points for everything from a pencil (10 points) to a trip to an Atlanta Braves game (150 points). And if you think the tests are giveaways, guess who flunked The Cat in the Hat test last week, flubbing 3 out of 5. Like you would have remembered if it was a A) windy, B) sunny, C) snowy...
...prize widely considered the world's most prestigious, the Nobels had a surprisingly inauspicious beginning. Established under the will of 19th century munitions maker Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), it was as much an attempt to redeem the reputation of its founder--best known in his day as the inventor of dynamite--as to award the accomplishments of its recipients. Nobel, a pacifist who liked to write poetry, had intended his explosive to be used mostly for peaceful purposes and was dismayed that it became so powerful an instrument of war. In 1888 a French newspaper--thinking it was Alfred...
...These Arabs go into the north and purchase, steal or help runaway slaves," Williams says. "We pay the raiders 50,000 Sudanese pounds for each slave they redeem. On this mission, we liberated...
...also has to contend with the fact that his captors are under fire from an army that has thus far proved singularly inept in its efforts, egged on by a beleaguered president who made his name playing the hero in countless Filipino action movies and is now desperate to redeem his tough-guy image...