Word: parroting
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...Martin Sheen has only four short scenes - two of them seconds long and conducted opposite a fluffy white parrot (who had me at "Hello") - yet still leaves a vivid impression. He plays Burke's former father-in-law Silver, a retired Marine who is handling his grief in the most productive way possible: by showing up at the Seattle hotel where one of Burke's multiday seminars for the bereft is under way, to remind him that a) he, Silver, is not A-O.K., b) he thinks Burke shouldn't be either and, finally, c) just because Martin Sheen...
...Labour project that created it - the potent mix of idealism and pragmatism, of social-democratic aspirations and fiscal conservatism, of commitment to equality and opportunity - needs a radical overhaul. The big question: Can Labour recast itself, delineate a new identity and purpose? Or is this party, like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, definitely deceased? (Read "European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel...
...turns out to hinge on what you mean by best and what you mean by long-run. The investment part actually remains pretty cut and dried. Over the past two centuries, stocks have done dramatically better for investors than have bonds or any other asset class. And while, to parrot the mutual-fund prospectuses, past performance is no guarantee of future results, there are sensible economic arguments why stocks should continue to perform best in the future...
...scene, Kyle J. Dancewicz ’11, who plays the shapely-legged Kim Bustible the Phoenix, has to resuscitate Hugh Bris with the restorative power of her tears. Unfortunately, the subtext was that Kim Bustible was actually a parrot masquerading as a phoenix...
...discovering her own sexuality for the first time, Lark is completely devoted to Termite’s care. She decides not to go to college so that she can stay and be “Termite’s mother, one of them.” Termite can only parrot words, not speak them, and has never cried, but his section of the book’s narration is imbued with an otherworldly clairvoyance.The most interesting perspective is that of Lark and Termite’s aunt, Nonie, who has effectively raised them. Nonie has taken pains to cover over...