Word: skeptics
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...won’t be any fun for Chirac if his country breaks the European chain of ratification. Still, France can and must sink this treaty. If the unpleasant task were left to the perennially euro-skeptic British, the vote would be interpreted as a refusal to commit, but France can still demand something better to commit to, and should while there is still time...
...speak and act like savages." The assassination of John F. Kennedy reaches this region as a rumor, and a fairly incredible one at that. The slain President's last name sounds like the Tamil word for glass. "Could any man give himself such a name?" asks one local skeptic...
...Simon Cowell's American Idol. Laurie camouflages his English accent, but not that British gift for precise derision, as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but nasty diagnostician. House is so gifted not in spite of but because of his cynicism--his misanthropy and suspicion make him the ruthlessly probing skeptic his patients need. And Laurie's portrayal turns House from a routine disease-of-the-week exercise into a chess match with illness, in which his not-nice guy finishes first. --By James Poniewozik
...bring the MTV notion of entertainment with edges and quirks, sass and style, to a movie system that is short on artistic and marketing innovation, then risky business might turn out to be smart business. It could also produce some good films. If that happens, then even a skeptic may want to stand up and applaud. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
Revelations, like Medium and The X-Files before it, uses a believer-skeptic pairing. Sister Josepha Montifiore (Natascha McElhone) belongs to an order of nuns, at odds with the Vatican, that believes the Second Coming is imminent; her reluctant partner, Dr. Richard Massey (Bill Pullman), is a secular academic. But the series leaves no room for doubt that otherworldly events are going on. In the pilot, there is a bona fide miracle (the shadow of Christ appears on a mountainside in Mexico), a Satanist cuts off his own finger without bleeding, and a baby--who may be the Antichrist...