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Starting tonight with saturation screenings, Iron Man kicks off the blockbuster movie season right on time - seven weeks before the summer solstice. But the Hollywood moguls can't afford to wait for June 21. Summer is the season designed to remind the still-vast film audience why they pay to see movies. And for the past few years, summer means now. In 2007, three of the four top-grossing films (Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) all came out in May. (The fourth, Transformers, was released in the flop-proof July...
...business? Because I can’t think of any.” And, as an afterthought: “But as long as I have you here, how much do you know about food?” I could answer the latter with ease, less because of my vast array of culinary knowledge than the skillful art perfected by any graduating English concentrator of elegantly saying nothing at all. The first, however, gave me pause...
...project has been a vast collaboration, completed on a very tight budget. Since it began in 2001, more than 150 students have participated. Necessity has sometimes forced them to come up with innovative solutions: For example, the team decided that instead of using a bell housing (which contains the car's clutch) made of expensive magnesium, students designed and built a lightweight substitute made of cheap, sturdy iron. Hayashi won't disclose the car's total development costs, but he says it will cost some $785,000 just to compete at Le Mans. Funds have come from Tokai University, sponsors...
...Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has designated $100 million for the neighborhood's reconstruction once the fight is finally over. But despite that progress report, the American-backed Iraqi forces are still bogged down by a resource-consuming battle with the Mahdi Army across stretches of the militia's vast east Baghdad territory...
...door. Her novel, “The Accommodating Footman,” was left abandoned on the floor. Felicity would go to the stables and become undisguised and naked. She was mad for him, mad for the monumental pectorals straining beneath his suspenders.The yellow firmament above the vast courtyard was assuming an ominous gray. The play of moisture and heat in the air made the supple boughs wag. The tumultuous wind tore violently at her hair and thrust its cold cruel fingers through the laces of her bodice.Then came the rains, first in scattered drops that teased her skin with...