Word: snappingly
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Grisham's Law It should be a snap to adapt a John Grisham thriller. Read the novel, compress the exciting first half, rewrite the rest, keep it moving. Well, the films of The Firm and The Pelican Brief maunder and mope as if Grisham were Graham Greene. Not that it makes any difference. The Firm was 1993's third biggest grosser; Pelican is a cool Christmas...
...Then - snap! - the film becomes as taut as the rope Jarratt's kangaroo shooter uses to tow the tourists back to his isolated desert camp on the pretext of fixing their car. Around a campfire, he tells his captive audience: "Fair dinkum, I get around. You never know where I'll pop up." Almost an hour into Wolf Creek, the pressure has become almost unbearable. Which is exactly how first-time writer-director Greg Mclean wants it. When he learns that at a recent screening, five people left the theater around this point in the movie, and only four came...
DIED. LEN DRESSLAR, 80, booming voice behind advertising's leaf-clad Jolly Green Giant, the Rice Krispies' Snap and other pitchmen; in Palm Springs, Calif. The jazz baritone often joked that his tuneful rendition of the vegetable-peddling giant's "Ho, ho, ho!" put his two daughters through college...
...area, allows anyone to connect to the Internet through wi-fi transmitters powered by solar panels on nearby rooftops. The panels collect the sun's rays even on cloudy days and hook up to batteries that store 72 hours' worth of power, ensuring a steady supply. "It was a snap to hook up--no wires, no drilling," says Gerard Cote, spokesman for Downtown Boulder Inc., the business group that footed the bill. The cost was half the competing bid for a conventional wireless system...
...like a bad dream—take, for instance, Glenn Dorris’ fumble on a kickoff return to give Princeton the ball on the Harvard 33-yard-line. But this wasn’t a bad dream, at least one from which the Crimson could wake up and snap out of. This was a loss that should never have been. —Staff writer Samuel C. Scott can be reached at sscott@fas.harvard.edu...