Word: wooing
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...creation of the Women's Leadersip Awards--only one of the College's recent attempts too woo women--coincides with capital campaigns being conducted by both the University and Radcliffe that often vie for the same donors...
...could be accused of espousing the values of an older and more gracious Chinese civilization, Mao drew his sustenance from the chanting crowds of Red Guards. The irony here was that from his youthful readings, Mao knew the story of how Shang Yang late in life tried to woo a moral administrator to his service. But the official turned down Shang Yang's blandishments, with the words that "1,000 persons going 'Yes, yes!' are not worth one man with a bold...
Best (Study Break) Picture: Face/Off. Clocking in at close to two-and-a-half hours, Face/Off is John Woo's pulp epic with one of the most devious action plots ever. Woo breaks out the book of Coppola for the artistry behind his intricate family entanglements, lush cinematography and immaculately choreographed violence. So he doesn't have Coppola's storytelling skill; who needs a story when you can have Travolta and Cage...
...entire decade were two entries in the babbling-baby Look Who's Talking series. When the drought finally ended, he vowed to work as often as possible with A-list names. "If Dustin Hoffman wants me, yeah, I'm going," he says, his voice rising. "Mike Nichols? John Woo? Emma Thompson? Nicolas Cage? Yes, yes, yes, yes! I'm not going to say no like I did years ago and miss every opportunity I had. I'm in my 40s--it's time to define my career...
...bouquet money says that State of the Union (1948) is just the thing to warm the voters' cockles on this schizophrenic weekend. No one does a Washington fable better than Capra, and no one flings woo like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Tracy plays a self-made man who, when lured into an idealistic run for the presidency, makes a stop at the vipers' nest. Along the way, he tracks down his soul, ditches chippie Angela Lansbury and falls back in love with wife Kate, who shimmers here with inside-and-out loveliness. Yes, this one outwags...