Word: speaking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fable about a special girl with a condition that's hard to explain), is no great shakes as an auteur. She dawdles in sketching Bella's high school chums, and her direction of the dialogue will often bore those who aren't mouthing it from memory as the actors speak it. But she chose her leads wisely: the pretty Stewart is a questioning, questing presence; the Brit Pattinson, a sensitive-stud dreamboat. And Hardwicke is faithful to the book's chaste eroticism. The couple must put off having sex because, well, it could kill Bella. (AIDS metaphors are unavoidable here...
...mean more that can be spent by consumers. In any case, during the past eight years we have been redistributing wealth - from our kids, and theirs, to the upper few percent on the economic ladder with little or none trickling down to the common man the GOP purports to speak for. Dan Thompson, Union...
What's clear within the first moments of Chinese Democracy is that Rose still has his snarl. His voice always was a power tool with endless precision settings, and on "Better" he opens by speak-singing in a tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody. What Rose has to say - "A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation" etc. - is a bland list of romantic gripes that fail to diminish the song's impact one bit because it's how Rose sings that matters. Repeating the word better...
...When a friend watched my audition tape, she was physically repulsed. Stunned, she didn’t speak for a few minutes. Instead she stared at me in befuddled rage. “An average kinda guy…Good Midwestern stock?!” she finally yelled, repeating my self-declarations. “You were born in San Francisco. Your fucking favorite book is ‘Ulysses.’ You are not average Joe.” In my defense, I never lied in my audition tape. I did exaggerate my Midwestern “As?...
...problem has only gotten worse, with the number of uninsured Americans rising, along with soaring health-care costs. Fully 15% of the nation's economy now goes toward health care, while nearly 50 million Americans lack coverage. All the while, Daschle, now 60, has continued to work on and speak out for health-care issues...