Word: semi
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...Munich's nomination for Best Picture was no sure thing, because the film had managed to cause a rumpus on the left and the right. The main blasts came from Israelophiles who found the movie's anguished semi-evenhandedness a slur on the memory of a modern min-Holocaust. After Schindler's List, the gag went around town, "I knew Steven Spielberg before he was Jewish." Now, much of Hollywood was saying mournfully, "I knew Spielberg when he was Jewish." The ascendancy of Hamas (which Spielberg can't be blamed for) won't help. Neither will the film's middling...
...reconsidered that last bit somewhat) he appeared on Larry King with a more nuanced position: "A memoir is a subjective retelling of events," he said. "It's an individual's perception of what happened in their own life; this is my recollection of my life." Oprah, in her inimitable semi-divine fashion, called in to the show to lend her carefully phrased support: "The underlying message of redemption in James Frey's memoir still resonates with me, and I know it resonates with millions of people who read this book...
...Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals in a warm-up tournament to last year's Australian Open, and Chinese fans hope she can match that effort when the year-opening grand slam kicks off in Melbourne next week...
...Actress (Showtime). Kirstie Alley's semi-autobiographical comedy could have been a brave, scalding look at how Hollywood treats women. Instead it was an unfunny, predictable vanity project that managed to be self-pitying and self-aggrandizing at the same time...
...some of the requisite skills to being a semi-competent chair? I was horribly persistent and wrote a scrut. I learned so much in my editing sessions with Rachel E. Dry ’04, listening quietly as she and Liz F. Maher ’04 talked in the office. But also, I shot for associate editor and got it. And in my year as associate, I learned: in the production suite, in the newsroom, in the FM office. I watched in awe as Mollie H. Chen ’05 worked her organizational magic, and as Sarah...