Word: wanly
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...Episode II: Attack of the Clones b) Jar Jar Binks & the Journey to Minstrelsy c) Attack of the Toys You Want to Buy at Toys "R" Us d) "Obi-Wan-derful!" --David Manning...
...economic news is all it takes to rouse Wall Streeters from their morbid agnosticism, the Dow would have hit 36,000 back in March. These days, good news from Main Street is just plain good news. And Tuesday actually cooperated, if only in the wan, incremental proportions that is the best good news we get these days...
...urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe. A.I. boasts a beautiful central performance--Haley Joel Osment, 13, plays David with a kind of buoyant gravity--and a canny turn by Jude Law as a robo-stud, while other actors are wan. The film is bold, rigorous and sentimental by turns, and often all at once, as should be expected from a two-man movie where both have strong wills to match their great gifts, and one is dead. "This will be a repeat of 2001," says Harlan. "Some people will hate...
...urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe. A.I. boasts a beautiful central performance - Haley Joel Osment, 13, plays David with a kind of buoyant gravity - and a canny turn by Jude Law as a robo-stud, while other actors are wan. The film is bold, rigorous and sentimental by turns, and often all at once, as should be expected from a two-man movie where both have strong wills to match their great gifts, and one is dead. "This will be a repeat of 2001," says Harlan. "Some people will hate...
...Washington even put out its own Chinese version of the letter, using the phrase wan xi (deep sorrow and regret) over the missing pilot, feichang baoqian (extremely sorry) for landing without permission, and feichang wanxi (extreme sympathy) for Wang's family over their loss. Whether or not that was enough for the Chinese was a moot point - Beijing's media simply did their own translation of the English text, in which the double "very sorry" became the very "shenbiao qianyi" (deep expression of apology or regret) that Washington had steered clear of. It's a safe bet that...