Word: stirs
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Pity the poor hero. Oh, he gets the girl and saves the planet, but where's the fun in that? Love and duty are a puny match for the epochal mischief a prime bad guy can stir up. The villain may be the supporting part, but it's often the juiciest--from the snake upstaging Adam in the Garden of Eden to Shylock eclipsing Antonio to Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman swiping the spotlight from (hmm, who was that?) Michael Keaton...
...There were also two long shots on the stage who attempted to stir things up. Congressman Dennis Kucinich tried to secure the hearts - if not the support - of the party's anti-war left, calling for Vice President Cheney's impeachment and promising to "move away from global warming and global warring." Former Senator Mike Gravel declared of the other candidates: "After standing up with them, some of these people frighten...
...best I know, this was the first time that any news account mentioned the procedure that other practitioners would later rename "intact dilation and extraction." It didn't make much of a stir at the time. But when the anti-abortion movement picked up on it in the mid-1990s and attached its own label - "partial birth abortion" - it became the rallying cry with which opponents began reversing many of the gains that the pro-choice movement had made over the previous two decades. This week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on the procedure, which is a move...
Wagamama—a Japanese word which means “willful, naughty child”—serves ramen and udon bowls as well as assorted stir-fried dishes at more than 70 restaurants around the globe, and plans to open shop in a former watch store next to Staples in mid-July, said Paul O’Farrell, the company’s chief operating officer...
...hues of emerald green to aquamarine blue is breathtaking. Each fiber is palpable in its smooth, glossy sturdiness, but we can also feel the soft tufts of gray and white along the feather’s bottom, aware that if we were to give the gentlest blow, they would stir. The soft shading and the way in which the light illuminates certain portions of the feather add to its real-as-life three-dimensionality. The magnifying glasses provided upon one’s entrance to the exhibit come in handy and, at the very least, add an element...