Word: equalization
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...meaningless celebration of spoiled rich people, their self-entitlement, their vulgarity, sanctimony and vanity. (Later, Kevin Spacey introduced the annual In Memoriam roll of clips of dead movie personalities by asking for a few seconds of silence for the victims of Sept. 11; apparently that was considered a roughly equal trade.) They're pretty much the sort of thing that caused the Taliban to outlaw all those TV sets. But that's what makes them American; that's why we tune in loyally by the millions to get drunk and laugh at them. That's what makes them great...
...acceptance speech last year. Opening the envelope and seeing Denzel Washington's name, Roberts gushed, "I love my life!" before announcing the winner. Because, you know, when we see the first black man since Sidney Poiter four decades ago win the award, the first thing we think is: "Yeah, equal opportunity, blah blah blah - but more important, how does this make Julia Roberts feel about her life...
...Boston the diocese admits the remnants of its insurance won't equal the settlements already negotiated, much less new ones. Bernard Cardinal Law, under fire for years of covering up parish priests' sexual misconduct, has vowed not to raid collection plates, bingo nights or the church's ambitious $300 million capital fund-raising effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping...
...triple axle for an anti-labor, pro-life Republican to attract the substantial number of Democrats and independent women he will need. Some Massachusetts Democrats fear that Romney's entry will give late entrant Robert Reich, the former Labor Secretary, an edge, since he's the only candidate with equal name recognition to Romney's. But the book Reich wrote after leaving the Clinton Cabinet was full of stories that turned out not to be true and made him out to be a hero at the expense of others. He got in trouble again recently when he said Clinton...
...stoops and street corners; she captures the unseen places of sandlots and sidestreets. Her interpretation of the city is an urban sprawl parcelled into discrete little packages. Levitt shuns the easy and trite depictions that populate the popular mind and illuminates street scenes in a manner that is in equal measure gritty and paradoxically poetic...