Word: stripe
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...will beguile some viewers, perplex others. Its vision is too capacious, its narrative route too extended, the shift in tone (from suburban domestic to rural nightmare to urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe. A.I. boasts a beautiful central performance - Haley Joel Osment, 13, plays David with a kind of buoyant gravity - and a canny turn by Jude Law as a robo-stud, while other actors are wan. The film is bold, rigorous and sentimental by turns, and often all at once, as should be expected from a two-man movie...
...precious little of what Arafat had promised his people it would bring. And as he approached his moment of truth at Camp David, it was the Palestinian leader who had most reason to be alarmed by Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon. Because for Palestinian militants, both of the Islamist stripe and of his own Fatah organization, the lesson of Lebanon was that Israel could be forced to cede control of occupied territory if it were forced to pay a high enough price. Once Arafat launched a second intifada, it was those militants rather than the aging PLO chairman who claimed...
...status, then and now, of the original Groaner. In the early '30s Crosby had created, or certainly synthesized, the craft and tone of modern pop vocalizing. The summer of 1956, however, when "High Society" premiered, was the sweltering season of "Hound Dog." Genteel warbling of the Crosby stripe was two generations passé. First it was supplanted by Sinatra's aggressive poignance; then it expired in the steam Elvis' and Little Richard's Afro- eroticism. At 53, Crosby had become a superstar emeritus, a genial irrelevance, a golfer and a duffer - the Ike of pop music...
UMass, and primary face-off man senior Jeff Seals, have been dominant at the stripe this season with a .627 winning percentage going into yesterday's game. Seals is ranked eighth in the nation in the face-off, taking 125 of 200 draws for a .625 average...
TIME.com: A bizarre struggle for control over Russia's NTV network appears to have pitted the Kremlin and its cohorts against an assortment of Russians of different political stripe, and even Ted Turner. Journalists have barricaded themselves inside the TV station after a Kremlin-backed group moved to seize control of NTV, in which Turner has expressed interest in buying a share. And Muscovites are planning a huge demonstration Saturday to back the journalists against a perceived takeover by the state. What are the implications of this battle...