Word: stouts
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...Jiang Wen's a man's man," counters a stout, high school swimming coach craning his neck to see his virile idol ambling down a narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong...
...student newspaper, Helder had ensured his arrest. The knottier problem is divining his motives. Far from fitting the usual profile of an angry loner, the smiling young suspect in the Kurt Cobain T shirt was an easygoing student of art and industrial design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie and the product of rural Pine Island, Minn., where he sang in the high school choir, played football and jammed with a grunge rock band called Apathy...
...coil seems a rich irony in light of these soothing words, as we realize that there are statutes of limitations on everything—whether we can tell what they are ahead of time or not. And so we get a few minutes to nurse a warm pint of stout, a couple of days to view graffiti before it’s painted over, six days to take a vacation. Four years for a college education, eight for a rock band, three score and ten for a life...
...Charlotte Stout's experience is instructive. Last April, she attended the execution of Coe, who 21 years earlier had raped and killed her daughter Cary Ann. "I wanted to be there in case Coe, at the last minute, expressed remorse," she says. Instead, just before he died, Coe raised his head and said, "I forgive you, Charlotte Stout, for helping the state to murder me." - With reporting by Hillary Hylton/Austin and Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville...
...machines that produce 3-D holographs of products and logos that seemingly morph into one another and hover in space. Sometimes the forms mix. London agency The Media Vehicle uses 3-D effects to produce cart-stopping grocery-floor ads - like an image of an oversized can of Guinness stout seemingly bursting through the floor...