Word: showings
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Draws conservative criticism for bowing to Emperor Akihito; the State Department terms it a proper show of respect...
...really have to show up on wall Street with pitchforks and torches before its denizens get that we've had it with their lying, thieving games? Wayne Laepple, Northumberland...
...instance, when the Man tosses his last picture of the Woman into a gully, a gesture meant to banish dangerous sentimentality and show his commitment to inhabiting the new world, it seems cruel and pointless: cruel because the Boy is entitled to an image of his mother, pointless because every time the Man looks at the Boy's face, he must see her reflection--Smit-McPhee looks so uncannily like Theron that it's impossible to forget her. (The Boy also wears her cast-off hat for virtually the whole movie, playing up the resemblance...
...earnestness, Palin also has a media pro's awareness of herself as a TV construct. Summing up her family's public experience for Barbara Walters, she said, "Our life has become kind of a reality show." It's a near perfect analogy. Like a reality contestant, she was plucked from nowhere (or a Bridge to Nowhere), "cast" for her dynamism and compelling personal story. Like a good reality-show premise, she pushed every cultural hot button in reach (gender, parenting, sex, class resentment). And as with that of Jon and Kate Gosselin, her fame devolved into a tabloid feud, with...
...Couric interview, Palin had to convince voters she was ready to lead the country if need be. For her relaunch with Oprah and Barbara, the bar was lower: to show America that she could make it through interviews with Oprah and Barbara. (A full-court press from The View--now that would be a challenge.) She reined in her wild syntax, tossed about folksy-isms like "bullcrap" and called President Obama's economic policies "back-assward." And she stressed her average-Jane image: she let Oprah's cameras follow her to the gym; in her book, she recalls going door...