Word: turning
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...take. After initial resistance to the idea, Elster invites Jimmy to stay with him in the vast remoteness of a Western desert—“Not a long visit, he’d said.” But the arbitrariness of such adjectives becomes apparent as days turn to weeks and then, presumably, into months. When Elster’s daughter Jessie comes to stay, at the behest of her mother who worries about Jessie’s new male companion, her presence offers Jimmy a new way to see Elster and her father a point of focus...
...also a bit of a shock, though younger audiences will not have trouble keeping up. Duke says that the film “is not like a Ken Burns documentary about the eighties. You’ll be able to keep up, I promise.” Robinson, in turn, believes that audiences will love the feel of the movie as they will, “get to take a trip back,” and “see the ridiculousness of the hairstyles and fashions...
...feeling of healing through expression. Xiu Xiu’s risk-taking and continued diversity of influence add another layer of interest to a fascinating album. While certainly not easy to listen to, “Dear God” proves that Xiu Xiu are doing their best to turn what seems to be a potentially destabilizing pain to very productive ends...
...Obama's critics only have it half right. His presidency is in crisis. But it isn't too late to turn things around. The President may be more of a basketball man than a football fan, but he needs to heed the advice of two great gridiron coaches to head off Cheney's confident prediction. "The future is now," George Allen used to say. And, in the words of Al Davis, "Just win, baby...
...some heavyweight rivals in the presidential race. There are concerns about how confusing the vote will be - in the south, voters will be asked to cast 12 separate votes for various national and regional institutions - and the competence of the election officials. And a poll alone can hardly turn the south into a fully functioning nation. After decades of war and chronic underdevelopment, David Gressly, the U.N.'s regional coordinator for southern Sudan, reckons that it will take billions more dollars in aid and another "10 to 15 to 20 years" of international assistance to get the place...