Word: stirringly
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...both toning up, with the muscular new Casino Royale, and looking back, with this multi-DVD pack of all 20 of the "official" films, with the first five of the superspies. The Bond tropes may be as codified--and believable--as Kabuki, but the films can still shake and stir...
...year-old franchise that was showing signs of tired blood and losing its appeal to the young-male action-film demographic. The writers--Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, along with the ubiquitous Paul Haggis--and director Martin Campbell wanted to go harder, faster, not to stir the formula but to give it a vigorous shake...
While reporters like to stir the pot and focus on the catfights, they don't seem to grasp that these are two seasoned professionals working at the highest level of American government with skin so much thicker than the rest of us. As Bush noted in his press conference on the day after the election, "This isn't my first rodeo." Or as my mother has always told me, "This business comes with a free head clipping. Every time you stick your neck out, they come around...
...told-you-so moments right now because polls are tightening." But if voters wind up choosing divided government today, a big wave of news coverage will focus on whether the President can become a uniter, working with Democrats as he did when he was Texas governor. Snow caused a stir online and in the White House press corps last month when he told Powerlineblog.com that one of the administration's goals for the next two years-the final quarter of Bush's presidency-is "maybe to de-toxify American politics a little...
...Columbia University revealed that when some people see fleeting, subliminally projected images of fearful faces, their brain's fright center lights up. If fear is infectious, perhaps a dishonest face makes us feel similarly slippery or a surly face leaves us feeling sour--hardly what politicians want to stir up in voters...