Word: pulling
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...supposed to be the scary one? If I saw either cloud of smoke rising from a bomb blast in my own city, I wouldn't be worried much about where it fell on the Pantone color wheel. (More-elaborate comparisons of the two altered photos, which led Reuters to pull over 900 pictures by photographer Adnan Hajj, have been springing up on YouTube; best to search on "Reuters," perhaps because the video makers have had a hard time spelling "Adnan Hajj...
...centrist Republican House member Chris Shays were slotted in for Schlesinger. But both are in hot races important to the GOP, and neither is likely capable of taking out even a wounded Lieberman. One thing is clear: If the GOP has any plans to make Schlesinger disappear and pull a magic candidate out of the hat, the Dems haven't caught wind of it. "I have yet to see evidence that they've got a viable candidate to put on the ticket," says a Democratic strategist...
...producers and directors do maybe 12 movies in their careers," Jackson says. "I've done over 100 already. I've got a pretty good idea of what audiences want, and when my character dies for no goddam reason"--as has happened more times than he can count--"or we pull punches on the action, or the thing just doesn't make logical sense ..." He stops there in frustration, but Jackson has been known to bring a little bit of Shaft-like menace to the set. David Ellis, who directed Snakes and has worked as an assistant director on four other...
...rocky course spiked with grass (fairway 9 also doubles as a rifle range, but not on the same day), that says a lot about the town's ability to put on a party spread. Even the police are roped in for the occasion. "Before Golf Day, we had to pull all the weeds out of the greens," says Constable First Class Emma Mitten...
...bemoans the growing power of sectarian forces but can only watch in despair. In private conversations even politicians with no pretensions of secularism occasionally wish for a unifying leader. Some months ago, Sunni leader Saleh al-Mutlak and I chatted about the kind of leadership it would take to pull Iraq back from the brink. We agreed that there were no giants on the political landscape, and he shook his head dolefully. "Not only that," he said, sighing, "but the political system we have created makes it impossible for such a figure to emerge." Politicians, he said, have discovered that...