Word: sheen
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Frost/Nixon: Original Watergate Interviews Video footnotes to a new movie? Yep. A fascinating corollary to the film with Frank Langella as Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as David Frost, here's the 1977 show with the real stars. There's no gotcha moment, just the raw drama of a fallen monarch in closeup...
Despite actor Martin Sheen's best efforts imploring voters in television ads to vote against the "Death with Dignity" act in the days leading up the Nov. 4 election, the measure, referred to by opponents as "assisted suicide," was passed with more than 50% of the vote in Washington state on Tuesday. The approval makes Washington the second state in the U.S., after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The law permits individuals who have been given less than six months to live by medical professionals to request - and self-administer - a lethal dose of medicine...
...creative prime-mover: “I had a dream, no longer to be free / I only want to see four walls made of concrete / Six by six enclosed, soon we’re on video.” All the while, there’s an almost whimsical sheen to each song that conceals troubling realizations—like that above—in delicate, beautiful, and strangely ambivalent sound. Three songs so much as hint at the “ambient” past of the band’s prior work—”Microcastle...
...single focus on overturning Roe, they argue, ignores the progress that could be made in lowering the abortion rate through changes in economic policies and by reforming adoption laws. Most recently, two high-profile Obama supporters - former Reagan Justice Department official Douglas Kmiec and actor Martin Sheen - have filmed a series of short videos making this case that are being disseminated by the Democratic PAC Matthew...
...hands, I noticed, were extraordinarily soft. The nails on his fingers were battered and clipped short?all but the pinkie, which had been painted with a delicate sheen of polish...