Word: unspoken
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...each write a few scenes and then we discuss," says Bacri. "And if we disagree, we have a rule about complete intellectual honesty, so we'll debate until one convinces the other. Very much like what ends up in our films." In Look at Me, no thought goes unspoken, no comment undissected. The verbal back-and-forth propels each scene - a single sentence can turn a relationship on its head, transform losers into winners, victims into fighters. Speaking to her friend Sébastien about her father, Lolita goes from pushover to pissed off in an instant...
...miles off the banks of the Charles, has no property rights. Even so, the Huskies are another crew on the Charles trying to come into “Our House.” A charge passes between the two teams when they cross on the river, conducted through an unspoken animosity lingering in the air. While the Harvard heavyweights may not concentrate all their efforts on besting their Northeastern counterparts, when the right to gloat is on the line, it won’t be pretty. Only one team can be the fastest on the Charles...
...posted his essay after dispatching reporters to interview him. The essay blamed leaders in the provincial capital for putting up with corruption as a normal cost of development, something Huang called "perplexing and incomprehensible." He clearly knew what he was up against. "Many of my actions have broken the unspoken rules of officialdom," he writes. "It is these unspoken rules that indulge corruption and corrode the body of our Party...
...country's vulnerability are hard to avoid. Government authorities announced last week that two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks that brought down two passenger jets in August had actually been stopped at the airport by counterterrorism officers and then released without being searched. The unspoken assumption is that they bribed their way onto the planes. And Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev posted a message on a website last week claiming responsibility for the plane bombings and the school attack, noting that Beslan had cost a total of just $9,700. The government promptly blocked access...
...unspoken reality, though, is that all the current scrambling may still not be enough to keep the U.S. safe. While intelligence experts believe the busts in Pakistan have helped provide new insights into bin Laden's network and the deadly activities it evidently had planned, the scope of the terrorist threat has only widened as officials learn more. Which plots might still be going forward and which have been foiled is frustratingly unclear. For all the progress against a deadly and elusive target--and progress it was--that is the nature of the war against al-Qaeda. Says Michael Mason...