Word: watchfulness
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...start working." You don't go, "Oh, that dress - the sleeve is falling off. But I can fix it at home." No, you want a dress that fits. You want a toaster that works. But women - and I guess men too - are so willing to take the broken one. (Watch a video about dating advice for women...
...souvenir, however, was a shark tooth. Occasionally canal workers would find one in the dirt dislodged by dynamite, a souvenir from millions of years past when the two oceans were still connected. Such a lucky canal worker would then mount the tooth and wear it proudly on a black watch fob. Reginald Beckford, who worked for a time in a jeweler's shop, remembered mounting many shark teeth for West Indian clients...
...Oscar-winners were Indian: superstar composer A.R. Rahman, the renowned lyricist Gulzar and one of the sound mixers, Resul Pookutty. Rahman remembered his roots by hailing "all the people from Mumbai and the essence of the film, which is about optimism and the power of hope and our lives." (Watch director Boyle answer readers' questions...
...outcome of the presidential election if the only excitement was in hearing Brian Williams announce, "And the White House goes to ... Barack Obama!" - not which states he won, or how few votes determined the margin of victory in Virginia or Indiana? And the Super Bowl - would 100 million people watch it if the halftime show were virtually the whole show and, at the end, John Madden said, "The Steelers won," instead of, "This was the closest, wildest, most thrilling fourth quarter in NFL freakin' history...
...long as the particulars of Academy voting are suppressed, we movie lovers will find Oscar night less exciting as we watch it, less likely to lodge in our collective memory. ("Hey, remember how close that Best Actor race was in 2009?") Hollywood is supposed to be the best at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but by how much they won, the Oscar show could be the Super Bowl of movies...