Word of the Day
Pliable (adj., PLY-uh-bull)
Flexible or easily influenced. Gumby. Young minds. Toothpaste tubes. Outrage machines. Elections. Plants. Putty.
Gif of the Day
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Link of the Day
Mission: Impossible stunts
The sixth (!) Mission: Impossible movie hits theaters today. One thing that these movies have become known for is their wildly large, sometimes death-defying stunts. The marketing material for the last movie prominently featured one with Tom Cruise hanging off the side of a plane, which he actually did. The best scene in the movie, though, is the opera scene, a masterclass of visual storytelling that maintains both a building tension and a subtle, wry sense of humor:
The other scenes that work like gangbusters: the Burj Khalifa scene in Ghost Protocol and breaking into a hyper-sensitive vault in the original:
Wonder what they'll come up with for this installment.
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