Word: serialization
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...Series and serials. For 40 years or so, movie theaters lured the kids with Saturday matinees, often featuring a thrillingly primitive 12- or 15-chapter serial. TCM revived the tradition earlier this year by showing two 1930s Zorro serials, a few chapters each week. They've also opened the vaults to show B-movies detective series from the '40s: Sherlock Holmes, the Crime Doctor, the Whistler and the Lone Wolf sleuth again...
...hate to say this, but he's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I would say liar.' Ex--Bush aide Karl Rove, disputing Biden's recollection...
...French conservatives responded with immediate outrage-just as Royal had intended. Indeed, given the unbridled fury that both of Sarkozy's public pronouncements produced, one might expect Royal's serial apologizing to have thrilled fellow Socialists. Think again. Though most leftists were pleased to see Sarkozy squirm during the international press storm his reported swipes at fellow leaders set off, few approved of Royal's apology on behalf of a nation that had said "no thanks" to her offer to lead it. (Read "Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy...
...years in Botswana. His fictional oeuvre includes “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” series, about the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a female detective in Botswana, and the “Sunday Philosophy Club” series, featuring the philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, as well as serial fiction works. In his talk, “How to Do Things with People who Aren’t: The Moral Responsibility of the Author,” McCall-Smith used examples from his work and life to illustrate the thorny relationship between an author and his readers...
Second: fight back on terrorism. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the biggest opposition party, has been relentlessly criticizing the Congress Party for being "soft on terror" - India has suffered through a dozen serial blasts over the past two years. The BJP stepped up its rhetoric after the three-day terrorism attacks in Mumbai, but in this speech Gandhi struck back sharply. He reminded the crowd that it was a BJP government that negotiated the handover of three Muslim extremists to end the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a decision that proved disastrous...