Word: sweets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dozen different films are fighting to get out, and the best one doesn't always win. Miracle at St. Anna lugs its central narrative around much as Train does the statue head. And just as he rubs it for good luck, so Lee hopes the bonding of slow, sweet, huge Train and little Angelo - a kitschy mix of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Charlie Chaplin's The Kid - will propel audiences through the screeds on racism and the disasters...
...Houghton, a patron of the arts and the occupant of the building's showpiece apartment, a three-story, 7,000-sq.-ft. (650 sq m) residence complete with a marble-floored ballroom. Into it, for $15 million, move Paul and Annalisa, a creepy hedge-fund manager and his sweet wife. Paul wants to install in-wall air conditioners, which is against the building's rules. That sparks a feud with Mindy, the shrewish president of the co-op board, who's married to James, an obscure literary novelist who has just authored a massive best seller. A few floors...
...financial institution and say, 'We'd like to buy your bad assets,' they're going to say, 'Let's sit down and talk right this minute.' " Some on Capitol Hill, including Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Committee, think the deal is too sweet for Wall Street and are pushing to give taxpayers a piece of equity in the companies they would bail...
...cards in our eager hands. We assumed that, armed with this new technology, we would only have to touch our hips, gently, to that magical spot in order to secure a smooth entry. We soon learned, however, that it requires a good deal of awkward fumbling to find the sweet spot that turns on the reader and causes the door to yield. Worse yet, to do it with our wallet still in our pants requires a great deal of pelvic thrusting, prolonging the moment when, finally, our impatient rubbing provokes that high-pitched shriek of welcome entrance. More frustrating still...
...Quick jab to the right, spin move out of his grasp, and I was in open field. I sprinted as fast as I could, got between the players, and I was safe. I was moving. I was grooving. And, oh yeah, I was rushing. Principle 4: Have a super-sweet diss move. Last weekend, after Harvard’s come-from-behind victory against Holy Cross, I was one of four brave souls who saw it fitting to rush. I executed the prior three principles to a tee (although the cop presence was very low), and ran out, arms extended...