Word: saviors
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...Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave), two of which won Oscars. Here was the definitive English couple, manacled to each other for life: Wallace, a bachelor with a love for cheese and a weakness for inventing things that blow up, and Gromit, his silent pet, indentured servant and reluctant savior. Next year they'll star in The Great Vegetable Plot, Park's first feature film since the delicious Chicken Run in 2000. But now they can be seen, in byte-size form, on the Internet (at www.atomfilms.com) 10 savory japes with the general title Cracking Contraptions...
Their constitution lists as one of the requirements for membership that the “Individual claims Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord...
GANGS OF NEW YORK. In Gangs of New York, Leonardo Dicaprio solidifies his reputation as the savior of super-long historical epics that go tens of millions of dollars over-budget. In his first decent film since Titanic, Dicaprio plays Amsterdam Vallon, another troubled but determined young man struggling against deep social divisions. Last time he was trying to give Kate Winslet a reason to live; this time he wants to kill a guy nicknamed Bill the Butcher. Gangs of New York is as loaded with scenes of bloodshed as Titanic’s had cliches. Like his last memorable...
...latest challenge: closing the credibility gap at financial-services giant Citigroup, after government inquiries put a cloud over the firm's reputation--and its stock. Krawcheck was hired in October from the independent stock-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein (where she was CEO) to be Citi's designated savior. Citigroup's proud CEO, Sanford Weill, personally wooed her, reorganizing a large chunk of Citi around her. Krawcheck is now CEO of a reconstituted Smith Barney, which encompasses Citi's stock-research and retail-brokerage operations...
...first Martin is a savior to Lewis, a teenager whose slapstick act is bombing in strip clubs. But the public comes to see Lewis as the real star, a source of tension that finally breaks them up. Whether you consider Lewis a genius or one more reason to hate the French, the movie makes his originality unignorable. Lewis' now dated antics were once too hip for the room: audiences used to simple jokes didn't consider eating saltines while lip-synching an aria from The Barber of Seville to be comedy. You can see the germ of physical shock comics...