Word: totters
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...September. It specializes in long-form accounts of local council, school-board and other civic-association meetings. "I hand-tooled most of the HTML myself," says Askins. (He learned on his other site, Teeter Talk - word-for-word transcriptions of interviews with local figures on the couple's teeter-totter.) The Chronicle, says Morgan, has about 20,000 unique visitors a month and draws enough advertisers and donations for the two of them to live off. "A lot of people don't want to read an 8,000-word piece on the city council," says Askins, smiling gently behind...
...getting into," she recalled. "We discovered, as did the Kuwaitis, that the Iraqis had planted land mines in the playgrounds. So we hadn't been there 12 hours, and the first case we get is a young child who had gone outside to play on the teeter-totter and stepped on a land mine. That was my first experience with land mines...
...comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naiveté. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret...
...film is an impressively accurate and detailed portrayal of geisha culture and Japanese life in the 1930s. The creative design of costumes and set, authentic Japanese soundtrack, and marvelous cinematography bring Kyoto’s Gion geisha district to life again—rickshaws race through the streets, geisha totter in on the arms of wealthy men, and townspeople bustle in and out of traditional Japanese houses, complete with rice paper walls, paneled sliding doors, and tatami mats. The actors themselves commendably recreate the essence of the Japanese geisha culture—ironic considering that the three lead roles...
Over There (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), however, gives away its location specifically and graphically. It references Abu Ghraib and includes a female soldier with a disturbingly Lynndie England--ish streak. An insurgent is hit by a projectile that vaporizes him from the waist up; his legs totter a few ghastly steps before collapsing. All this was nearly too much even for executive producer Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) when FX pitched him the idea. The show, he worried, "would by its very nature tend to be political if not politicized." He finally decided that the basic human drama...