Word: wands
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...month when nothing much new is happening, Hollywood moguls look back at the blockbuster summer; they might be teenage girls who can't forget the boys on the beach. Moneywise, the memories will be sweet. Transformers 2 hit the $400 million mark, Harry Potter 6 wand-ered toward $300 million, and Up and The Hangover weren't far behind. The robotoid sequel is just the ninth film to enter the 400 Club, and soon it will pass No. 8, Spider-Man - though adjusted for inflation, Transformers 2 is just 67th...
...latest film from anime master Hayao Miyazaki - Academy Award winner for his 2001 film, Spirited Away - begins deep in the sea near a Japanese coastal village, and the underwater vision is both subtle and spectacular. Instead of relying on the usual cartoon bubbles and wisecracking fish, Miyazaki waves a wand and establishes his location with a pastel palette, the gentle undulating of flora and anemones, and Joe Hisaishi's haunting score. You're treated, aurally and visually, to a subterranean symphony...
...just a laptop computer. Spotty enforcement, it appears, is just as common as stringent checks at Jakarta hotels. Just hours after the Friday morning bombings, for instance, another luxury hotel in Jakarta performed a cursory check of an approaching taxi, not even bothering to use a metal-detector wand or mirror to check the underside of the car. A bomb-sniffing dog was on-site but was snoozing beside the security checkpoint...
...decade later, J.K. Rowling's septet of adventures has enchanted tens of millions of kids, their older siblings and all those adults who are as fascinated by the wizarding world as any child. The books held many delights for the very young: the Quidditch matches, magical beasts and wand work. But as Harry and his classmates entered puberty, Rowling began to address a time of grand and awful responsibilities, the transformation of the body before the mind is ready, the queasy realization that every decision can have ecstatic or cataclysmic consequences. In a word, adolescence...
Goldman Sachs is a giant pig. A giant pig that blows bubbles through a wand shaped like a dollar sign. A giant pig that laughs at us when we invest in worthless dotcom stocks. A giant pig that happily watches us get carried away and burned by rising home prices. A giant pig that smiles widely when we have to fill our tanks with $4-a-gallon gas. Quite simply, the investment bank that is revered on Wall Street could just be a bunch of crooks, and greedy ones at that...