Word: trim
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...Pythons, who inevitably wearied as their Circus labored into the 1980s. The narrative is nailed crudely together from sawn-up planks of new interviews with the stars - and old ones with friends and family in the case of Chapman, who died in 1989 - with no attempt to trim the overlapping reminiscences. As a result, some of the anecdotes - like the one about the party Chapman threw to come out about his homosexuality and to which he invited his nearest and dearest, including his girlfriend - get stale after the third telling. And it's hard to imagine the show would have...
Gibson is still honing the film, which may open late this year. He recently cut a conversation between Caiaphas and Pilate about the mocking sign (KING OF THE JEWS) on Jesus' cross. The edit was supposedly made not out of religious sensitivity but to trim the film's running time--though Devlin's one criticism of the film was "I wouldn't mind if it was longer." He adds, "I don't know if there will be wide appeal to go see it, but I think the vast majority of people who do see it will be moved to tears...
...COCO'S CLASSIC The contrasting-trim look emerges in 1955 and continues as a classic into the 1960s, when Chanel's suits become de rigueur for the ladies who lunch...
...course, it isn't just big guns like Gross who have the power to move markets and cause interest rates to spike. Many bond traders are like Brian Edmonds, head of Treasury-bond trading for Banc of America Securities. Blond, trim and a former Harvard lacrosse player, he sits at his desk all day interpreting economic data and trying to predict what the zig-zagging numbers might mean for the market. When claims for unemployment benefits ticked higher last Thursday, it suggested weakness in the economy. Investors promptly bid up bond prices. But Edmonds saw hidden strength in the news...
Newman credited the school’s staff with developing a comprehensive plan to trim the KSG’s deficit and implementing it effectively. She praised a team effort by faculty and administrators and said there had been no “silver bullet” solution...