Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Director Zhang Jianya dispenses with the disaster-epic formula, refusing to spoon-feed the audience the age, inside-leg measurement and pet preference of each character prior to the action. Instead, he lingers only for an aperitif with the two main players, who happen to be locked in a rocky marriage: air hostess Qiu Yehua (Xu Fan), on her last flight after 10 years of service, and her pilot husband Li (Shao Bing), so smooth he looks like he has taken time off from his day job as James Bond. Both board the same Shanghai to Beijing flight. With that...
After Harvard: Resurrect the Tasty, Harvard Square’s best greasy spoon ever...
...slogan of "We report. You decide," you get a sense of how the traditional media regards their mission. It is, "We decide. You read." Or, "We decide. You watch." It is the smug view that we know what it is you need to know, and we're going to spoon feed it to you whether you like it or not. Granted, this view has been transformed over the last few years by the desperate quest for ratings and readers, leading to the ever greater prevalence of so-called "soft news." This is the principle of finding out what people want...
...Valerie, this shop's owner, has realized a dream of providing dolls of color for the collector or novice. Porcelain dolls, spoon dolls, painted faces on frying pans; soap holders with brown faces and an expanding line of doll handicrafts line the walls of this gutsy store. With the sturdy Bag Lady, stash excess shopping bags in style...
...needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...