Word: wizenedness
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Watching the House of Representatives vote on the Wall Street bailout plan Monday from the press balcony, I happened to be standing next to a House employee - one of the wizened guys who's been there for years working the lights and audio for the chamber. As the vote stretched...
Monsieur Jacques had never had to paint in such proportions before. His brush erect above the canvas, he paused, deliberated, then decided to begin with a more manageable area of his subject’s anatomy.His subject was posed gracefully upon a marble pedestal, his skin gleaming bronze beneath the...
In the end, the movie beats down even the most stalwart viewer's resistance, in a Guantánamo of giddiness. The supporting actresses help out. Baranski, slim and large-mouthed, and Walters, wizened and hiding behind shades, might be Mick and Keith in a Rolling Stones girl tribute band, and...
He picked me up at the Holiday Inn in Redding, Calif., a wizened guy in a black T shirt and jeans driving a politically incorrect white Hummer. "Believe it or not, this is a pretty nice little town," he said as we headed out to his ranch, past a bleak...
But his greater challenge is knowing that the fate of the wizard world rests on whatever strength he can summon. He must face down Voldemort the way other boys confront puberty--as a threat and a thrill that run seismic changes through his body. Precociously wise, Harry also seems prematurely...