Word: smitten
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...kind of amazement: Don't these people realize TV is a business? It would be too simple, though, to paint him as a bean counter who does nothing for the love of it. Dragnet is a venture of both business and nostalgia; Wolf reminisces about being a cop-smitten tot, getting his parents to let him stay up until 9 p.m. to watch the TV series' debut. But then he shifts gears. "From a business standpoint," he says, "it's hard to launch new names. Everybody knows what Dragnet is. It's a pre-emptive name." That's important...
...first, superb battle scene; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a brush as with a saber; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish of her own with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal?of the King or the heart...
...says Pleiades co-founder Abby E. Carruthers ’04, laughing. “It’s PLEE-UH-DEEZ.” In Greek mythology, the Pleiades are a group of seven sisters who were renowned for their beauty. The hunter Orion became smitten with the sisters, who asked Zeus for help in escaping his affection. He turned them into doves and they flew into the sky and became a constellation of stars...
...story begins with Barry in the dumps, burdened with a trying job and a smothering family, and goes on to track his journey towards happiness and fulfillment. Barry’s catalyst for this journey comes in the form of Lena Leonard (Emily Watson), with whom Barry becomes so smitten that he follows her on a trip to Hawaii. At the same time, he gets to exercise his developing backbone when he becomes the target of a extortionist phone sex operator who dispatches goons to shake Barry down for cash...
...Gulyashvili, kept telling Mazayev as they rehearsed in Tbilisi. They eventually agreed that she wouldn't tell her family they were shooting in Pankisi. Mazayev obtained the blessing of the local Chechen guerrilla commander, Ruslan Gelayev, and fighters sometimes hovered on the fringes of the set. One became so smitten with Gulyashvili that he requested Mazayev's permission to speak to her. Mazayev politely fended him off. More sinister figures, probably local gangsters, watched from a distance but didn't interfere. Word had gone out from Gelayev that the crew was to be left alone. Gelayev and some...