Word: touts
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...indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelog in verse but Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" (for the movie's title) and MGM's "The Wizard of Oz" (for a delirious production number starring the Ku Klux Klan). Toss...
...then to recruit more guys? At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recruiters aggressively tout math and science programs--traditionally popular among male applicants. Chicago's DePaul University (59% female) sends out extra mailings to boys...
...then to recruit more guys? At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recruiters aggressively tout math and science programs - traditionally popular among male applicants. Chicago's DePaul University (59% female) sends out extra mailings to boys...
Like George W. Bush, Ashcroft is running a race based largely on character. The son of an Assemblies of God minister, Ashcroft, who doesn't drink, has been known for his religiosity. His ads tout his "Missouri Values"--a line that Carnahan and most observers consider an implicit dig lampooning the 66-year-old Governor as an out-of-touch liberal who is close to Bill Clinton. "It really is a perversion," Carnahan told TIME. For his part, Ashcroft, 58, says the line isn't a jab at Carnahan; but when asked by TIME, he won't say whether Carnahan...
...Daniels insists, sounding more like Jimmy Hoffa than Dr. Mark Craig, the crabby surgeon he played on "St. Elsewhere" in the '80s. "We have strategies to turn on the heat even higher." Some of the union's strategies will target manufacturers of the products its members are paid to tout. "There have been talks about a huge boycott against Procter & Gamble," says Robbins. "I don't think P&G wants celebrities telling America not to buy their products." This week O'Donnell asked Procter & Gamble and two of her other sponsors, Kellogg's and General Motors, not to run commercials...