Word: light
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...personal project. In 1946, Buñuel moved to Mexico, where his work on pedestrian comedies and the great success of his gritty, yet still dreamlike, juvenile delinquent saga "Los Olvidados" (1950) made him a bankable commodity. He proceeded to make a series of torrid melodramas and light comedies that pleased his studio bosses and also allowed him to indulge his sacrilegious imagination...
...campaign, Gore has pledged to introduce a slew of new gun laws that make it increasingly difficult for licensed, law-abiding Americans to own a firearm. These proposals do not seem practical in light of the current state of violent crime in our country. Nevertheless, we should not think of Gore as a candidate who would totally subvert the Constitution and endanger ordinary Americans. He is correct in proposing that gun legislation be examined, and National Rifle Association (NRA) radicals are usually intractable, even when it comes to issues as moderate as child safety locks...
...mounting calls throughout the Arab world for boycotts of American goods to protest U.S. support for Israel - indeed, Saudi Arabia has offered treatment in its own hospitals for Palestinian youths wounded in clashes with Israeli troops. McDonald's officials would be forgiven for feeling a little uneasy, in light of Burger King's experience in the region last year: The company was forced under threat of a boycott throughout the Islamic world to withdraw its Whoppers from a food court in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, but then found itself denounced by pro-Israel groups...
...party to be had...There's an empty cup to fiddle with until you reach the flowing keg at the start of the line, and when the keg runs dry, there's a bouncer who will hold what he knows is a fake ID up to the light, and let you in anyway...
...idea, of course was to light up the eyes of all the voters (and reporters) who were just resigning themselves to the glum idea that Gore was going to fight his contest of Sunday's certification to the very last day (December 12, with an option on January 20) and the very last lawyer...