Word: snapping
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...keep backup skeds of reality shows under glass.) This week, I will endure the upfronts for you - the hubris! the speeches! the little chicken kabobs! - and give you the rundown on what fresh hell the networks have in store for us, complete with entirely unfair and probably incorrect snap judgments based on the few minutes of selected clips the networks screen for the crowd. A few things we'll be looking...
...with a similar yawn? DoCoMo is putting on a brave face, insisting it will be the first 3G provider on the planet. Its big competitor these days: the Isle of Man (pop. 73,000). Think of it: video conferencing between the Irish Sea and Hokkaido will soon be a snap...
Tanaka, 57, doesn't want to be Japan's ninth Prime Minister in 10 years. Necessarily. The daughter of legendary '70s PM Kakuei Tanaka is the most popular politician in Japan, speaking out against the factionalism and corruption that have left the nation powerless to snap out of its 10-year recession. Polls show her ahead in the popularity contest--but that's not the decisive factor for loyalty-driven Liberal Democratic Party Pooh-Bahs...
...last push to make the show happen, reminders abound for everyone to take time to eat and sleep. People may snap under the mind-boggling amount of work to be done, but cast and crew alike must keep the goal in mind: to make the show the best it can be. All must come together to take the audience “Into the woods / Then out of the woods/ And happy ever after...
...testing is the diagnostic gold standard. He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone. These tears feel, he says, like "a bb under a strip of raw bacon." When "directional pressure" is applied, the bb's flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored...