Word: slot
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...These could be the legs of a comedy hit on the order of There's Something About Mary, the Farrelly Brothers romantic farce that lingered near the top of the box office heap all summer of 1998, finally made the No. 1 slot in its ninth week, earned $176 million in North America and (rare for a comedy) even more abroad, and won Cameron Diaz a Best Actress citation from the New York Film Critics Circle. Knocked Up could do even better, based on the rapturous reviews - the most favorable of any mainstream movie this year, according to the Rotten...
...Vegas gamblers, the sevens have an obvious appeal; not only is 7-7-7 the top slot machine jackpot, it also adds up to 21 in Black Jack. But the sevens have a lot of other significances as well. The simplicity is a big seller, especially for guys prone to memory lapses. In numerology, seven is filled with mysticism and is thought to be the most significant number. We have seven days in a week, seven notes on a musical scale and Seven Wonders of the World. The number carries religious symbolism too. God created the world in six days...
Doubles play proved a consistent strength of this year’s squad. With Ko and Litvak playing primarily in the top doubles slot and Mukundan and Brook mostly in the second spot, the Crimson’s first and second doubles teams compiled identical 14-6 records over the course of the season...
...interiors already do that by themselves, especially the upper galleries with their trapezoidal spaces and the diagonal slot windows that are something of a Libeskind trademark. However intriguing the avalanching façades of the ROM may be, it's the interiors - tumbling galleries that bring your expectations forcefully into a new alignment - that are the most fascinating thing he has done here...
...answer is that the Coens' crime caper is sharp and smart and was certainly worthy of a top slot. Gray's cop drama rarely reached the emotional boiling point, but the Tarantino and Fincher films, if not nearly the best of the directors' work, paraded the filmmaking brio, the narrative twists and drive, that mark solid updates of the classic Hollywood style. That the jurors ignored every member of this quartet, while laying hands on Van Sant's very minor indie effort, could possibly suggest an anti-Hollywood agenda. Major U.S. studios may take the hint, and be more reluctant...