Word: trio
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...Secret Fan (2005) and Peony in Love (2007), best-selling novels set in China's past. But her debut work, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, was a nonfiction account of Chinese immigrants to America, and she has written a trio of mysteries set in contemporary China. Now, with Shanghai Girls, she has produced an engrossing tale of two sisters (who become sisters-in-law, too, by marrying brothers) that has links to all her previous books...
...eyebrows arch delicately, conveying not just mild horror but consternation over her own reaction. She knows she's too cool to be ruffled and jealous, but she can't help herself. Thanks to boldly truthful moments like this one, along with highly naturalistic and often hilarious dialogue and a trio of appealing co-stars, Humpday quickly transcends its own gimmick. (See the top 10 movie gimmicks...
...that way. It's a toss-up whether Charlie's made her a star or she made it a hit, but within two months of the premiere episode, the show was on the cover of TIME, with Fawcett poised at the apex of the Angels triangle. She was the trio's breakout babe and an instant antidote to the decade's glums. The gurus of pop culture, and real people too, instantly leeched onto her outstanding but not intimidating good looks. Media madness for a new personality was rarely so sudden or endemic...
...three installments of The Lord of the Rings were nominated, and the last one won; but no episode of the Harry Potter series has been recognized, though they reside in popularity and quality just below the Tolkien trio. Judd Apatow has created his own genre, reviving comedy with his species of bromance; should that not have got some official nod? I might've slit my wrists if Mamma Mia! had been nominated last year, or Twilight. But why not give notice to a wider range of movies...
...Pakistan borderlands. For more than seven months, there was almost no public word on his fate. Western news agencies kept silent about the kidnapping of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the Afghan reporter Tahir Ludin and their driver, out of concern that international attention might jeopardize their safety. The trio was betrayed by a Taliban commander with whom Ludin had arranged meetings several times before. It was yet another reminder of the dangerous unpredictability of reporting the Afghan war. With negotiations for their release at a stalemate, Rohde and Ludin jumped the wall of the compound where they were being...