Word: wides
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...wide plan” marks an early attempt by Faculty administrators to begin turning localized feedback from individual units within FAS into a more generalized scheme for cutbacks that will show for the first time how departmental priorities fit into the Faculty’s larger budgeting plan...
...amazing story that no one's really talking about," says Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst with Hollywood.com. "For a movie starring a 78-year-old to have a $29 million opening weekend in wide release, and in the process to beat out the likes of Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars, I don't know if I've seen that before ... It's a testament to how people still feel about Clint Eastwood...
...Eastwood could not have predicted, when he first set out to make the film, that Detroit's economic woes would be making national headlines by the time Gran Torino arrived in theaters (his character is a retired Ford assembly-plant worker), nor that the movie would be launching into wide release the same day the U.S. government released the darkest unemployment report in 16 years...
...Today he's outed. Frost/Nixon, which since early December has been tiptoeing through a few big-city theaters and yesterday garnered five Oscar nominations (including one for Best Picture), breaks out into wide release. And Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, the third in the vampire-werewolf saga, is playing on thousands of screens, hoping to end the weekend as the No. 1 box-office hit. The film's makers shouldn't hope to pick up any Academy Awards when next year's nominations are announced, since the enterprise is sluggish when it's not grinding toward the preposterous. (See Richard...
...logistical glitches the wide-eyed excitement of doing everything for the first time, and what you get are lots of unscripted moments. On Wednesday, when President Obama entered a briefing room at the Old Executive office building, his staff and the press instinctively stood up. Obama was taken off guard. "I'm still getting used to that," he said, after telling everyone to have a seat. Later in the same event, Obama struggled with the practice of using a different pen for every document he signed. "They are very nice pens," the President advised his aides. (See pictures of people...