Word: touche
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...Hollywood stuff and cherish only the little films about Romanian abortions or Iranian kids. But some of us, this one anyway, knows that there's an American style - best displayed in the big, smart, kid-friendly epic - that few other cinemas even aspire to, and none can touch. When it works, as it does here, it rekindles even a cynic's movie love. So cheers to Downey, Favreau and the Iron Man production company. They don't call it Marvel for nothing...
...display of national athletic prowess against an old rival might be just the tonic he needs to revive his moribund prime ministership. Since taking over from the hapless administration of Shinzo Abe in September 2007, Fukuda's team has managed to look even more inept and out of touch than Abe's on issues ranging from Japan's faltering economy to the appointment of a new central-bank governor. Initiatives by Fukuda's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have been bottled up in parliament by resurgent opposition politicians. Recent polls have put Fukuda's public approval rating at about 25% - lower...
...Music is a process of self-realization,” he says. “That it is able to entertain, touch, or move other people is an added benefit...
...persuade my Italian class of the academic merits of a field trip to the North End, my teacher, Nives Dal-Bo’ Wheeler, suggested I contact her friend Maurizio Tognetti, who lives in the North End: “If you would like me to put you in touch him…maybe he could give you some useful advice and some further inspiration.”I met Mr. and Mrs. Tognetti in their apartment on Tileston Street, a small offshoot of Hanover. The first thing I learned about Mr. Tognetti was that...
...says Andrew Stanton as the voice of Crush, the lovable surfer-dude sea turtle in “Finding Nemo.” Stanton is no stranger to things that are “whoa.” In the film industry he has something of a Midas touch. Perhaps best known for writing “Toy Story,” the movie that ushered in computer animation as the wave of the future, Stanton has been involved with a long list of hits since the fateful days when he penned the pages of Pixar’s first...