Word: shallower
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...novel, Transmission, in which an unhappy Indian programmer is driven by job insecurity and his obsession with a Bollywood starlet to write a vicious computer virus and unleash it on the world. The misadventures of this renegade geek-along with those of the starlet, her mother, a shallow London marketing executive, his promiscuous girlfriend, a couple of xenophobic European bureaucrats and a Korean society devoted to an online fantasy game-combine to make for what may be this year's funniest piece of serious literature...
Shoemaker exploited course conditions early in the opening swim to grab the preliminary lead. While several of the other participants immediately started to paddle their way through the shallow waters, Shoemaker fell back on her lifeguarding skills, sprinting into first place...
...Though To is one of the few Hong Kong filmmakers who can put out movies that are commercially and critically successful, he's still a genre director at heart, and his gun battles are far more nuanced than his critique of a willingly shallow media. To harnesses the claustrophobia that's built into life in one of the world's most crowded cities, as pitched shootouts are fought inside the narrow confines of apartment hallways, elevator shafts, even the cluttered streets. It's not the oft-copied bullet ballet of John Woo or Tsui Hark; To's style...
Saturn has seven rings, ranging in width from just 30 miles to 188,000 miles. Each is a shallow river of ancient ice and rocky rubble. Gravitational eddies-not to mention small moons circling within the rings and at their edges-twist the rubble into braids, ridges and gaps...
With the years, the shallow explanations for Reagan's success--charm, acting, oratory--have fallen away. What remains is Reagan's largeness and deeply enduring significance. Let Edward Kennedy, the dean of Democratic liberalism, render the verdict: "It would be foolish to deny that his success was fundamentally rooted in a command of public ideas ... Whether we agreed with him or not, Ronald Reagan was a successful candidate and an effective President above all else because he stood for a set of ideas. He stated them in 1980--and it turned out that he meant them--and he wrote most...