Word: winded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...glory days, Hollywood made a few series--Andy Hardy, The Thin Man, the Bob Hope-- Bing Crosby Road comedies, and horror films with the whole Frankenstein family. But these were middling fare. The big-ticket items were singular sensations. Nobody made a sequel to Gone With the Wind, Casablanca or Ben-Hur. The industry didn't think in roman numerals until The Godfather, Part II in 1974. But with the triumph of special-effects fantasies like Star Wars, sequels became a smart way to print money. Now they are needed to turn bad years into good ones. The difference between...
...Boxofficemojo.com all except the No. 1 Titanic are franchise movies, and seven of those nine are sequels--episodes of Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Shrek. (That's in actual figures. In inflation-adjusted dollars, 1939's Gone With the Wind is still the all-time winner, and no sequels make the top 10.) Dead Man's Chest, last year's second installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, was only the third film in history, after Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, to earn more than...
...when Treb's troops would fling into action, unfurling, say, the Mylar strips that blanketed the sky with what looked like glitter done by ILM. Some freelancers, stationed in the few Times Square high-rises with openable windows, unfurled toilet-paper streamers - two-ply contrails that, caressed by wind currents in the concrete canyon, glided and twirled through the night air for minutes...
...price they're willing to pay to be entertained. And they take to their roles with the same unquestioning good nature as college fans at the Homecoming game. It was a boon to everyone's mood that we had October football weather on Dec. 31: clear, with no wind or rain, and the temperature near 50. A beautiful night for an outdoor party...
...didn't expect to see such a big guy become so small," says Hayder Findi, a worker for a nongovernmental organization.?? "Saddam wasted my life.? All my memories of him involve wars and military service.? All my dreams went with wind because...