Word: tanked
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...more, between offers of breakfast in bed and being forced into sexual relations, he finds time to serenade the viewer while playing his invisible piano. Conversely, the lingerie-donning video vixen typifies the average male: she pushes, she shoves, she commands, and she swims through a fish tank. Confused much? Well, fear not. Usher concludes the video by whispering the affirmation, “Stay tuned / For part two / You been me / And I been you / But we gon’ switch / This thing back / I’mma put it on your ass.” Now, that?...
...Ritchie loves characters who provide conflict and, more important, congestion; his pictures are downright garish with local color. A few from this fresco: Tank (Nonso Anozie), an Anglo-Afro bruiser who's fond of Merchant-Ivory dramas; Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy), a gang member who unexpectedly plights his homoerotic troth to the flummoxed One Two ("What exactly is it you want to do to me, Bob?"); and, best of the lot, Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell), a junk rocker who has faked his own death to sell more CDs. It's a star-making part for Kebbell...
...develop a mass-market electric vehicle, and the Paris show has 19 of them on display. Most are versions of the same system: well-insulated cars with electric batteries that plug into regular outlets at home or at charging stations on the street, a little like filling the tank. Batteries would recharge in a few hours (about six hours in the 110-volt U.S. or about half that time in 220-volt Europe) and run for about 100 miles when full. Executives are betting that range will suffice in cities, where people use cars mostly to commute to work...
...vessel is typically held for a few days or weeks while the pirates negotiate a ransom with the ship's owners, usually netting between $500,000 and $2 million. Then ship and crew are then released unharmed. This year, according to a new report by the British think tank Chatham House, the Somali pirate industry has raked in as much as $30 million...
...perturbed that Defense Minister Barak did not carry out any evaluation og the radar's possible impact on Israeli military operations before approving it. For one thing, Israeli defense experts are worried that waves from the X-band radar might throw off the accuracy of a new Gil anti-tank missile also being tested in the Negev. "The Bush Administration is in the mood to give us anything, as long as we don't attack Iran," gripes one senior official. "So why did we take this radar...