Word: sullenly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wonder the "heroes" of these films are often silent, sullen resisters. The title character of Jia's quietly powerful Xiao Wu is a thief with scruples: he won't give in to the system. He is spurned by an old gangster friend, harassed by the police, cursed by his father ("I should have drowned you in the urinal when you were born"). Finally, arrested for pickpocketing, he is hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas...
...Whatever Greenspan's private rationale - we'll get the minutes eventually - a course of sorts has been set: Until the Fed sees a tangible sign that the U.S. consumer is turning sullen, the Fed will stick to gradualism and the markets are on their...
...scanning him from head to crotch. Other Max attributes were once the prerogative of heroic males: a gravity, a radiating inner ache; a past and a quest. She's lonely on top, flirting with potential mates but searching for a mother. In this sense she is a big sullen sister to Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls. They too are the spawn of a biological experiment. (They also levitate, like the "Tiger" women.) And though the show is perky, and its pace frenetic, the Girls carry the burden of others' expectation. When things go wrong, the Townsville adults chant...
...because he has refocused national attention on the sullen, confused kids who skulk around our schools, harboring grudges and entertaining violent demons, and has forced us to ask sickeningly familiar, unflattering questions about our country and our societal obsession with violence, Charles "Andy" Williams is our person of the week...
...were more of those concentric circles. At the center of one you could discover Mark McGrath, the singer with Sugar Ray (the group that had that catchy song and video about a girlfriend with a four-post bed). He was good-natured and goofy, not privy to the Be-Sullen school of rock singer aesthetics. I inquired about his musical heroes. He named a few, and when I asked him if he was a Beatles fan his eyes lit up and he said "Psycho," which I took to be a positive...