Word: staid
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Pierre Trudeau 80 The dashing Prime Minister fought Quebec separatism and proved a temporary antidote to Canada's staid, fusty image...
...largest company--but he's getting out anyway. Kind of. He tapped a successor, Jeffrey Immelt, but postponed his planned April retirement to oversee GE's acquisition of Honeywell. His memoirs, planned for spring, earned a $7.1 million advance, which he plans to donate to charity. Welch, 65, turned staid GE into a dynamic, even hot business--in part by laying off 100,000 workers in the '80s, earning the nickname "Neutron Jack." He has since cultivated a gentler image; he refused to wear a jacket for this photo, saying, "I don't want to look stuck...
...snowy day, a woman named Vianne Rocher (Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) arrive in the staid if picturesque French village of Lansquenet. Their intent is to open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp), who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled...
...snowy day, a woman named Vianne Rocher (Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) arrive in the staid if picturesque French village of Lansquenet. Their intent is to open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp) who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled...
...triumphs over pathetically low budgets. He told his production designer on a foreign espionage drama to concentrate on building a giant doorway so large and impressive that most of the action could be set around it, avoiding construction of tacky cardboard backdrops. He chose to juice up an incredibly staid courtroom scene in the luridly titled "Secrets of a Co-Ed" (1942) by combining a number of shots into one intricate 10-minute-long take, something unheard of in a "Poverty Row production...