Everyone’s favorite:
1. A Miscellany of Angelenos, Meeting in Love and Anger
2. Young Students Post Solid Gains in Federal Tests
3. Dead, Buried or Risen Again, Garbage Is Forever
4. Dudes Toasting the Newlyweds (and Their Bodacious Guests)
5. Couture Steps Lively for a Corpse
6. Unprepared and Ill-Equipped for a Serial Killer at Large
7. Four Souls Disguised as Couples
8. Imitations That Transcend Flattery
9. Even After a Few Too Many Rounds, She’s Still a Professional
10. Egyptian Detained in Cairo in Connection With London Attack
Pick the magic four:
1. Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable
2. Even Comic-Book Superheroes Can Use a Little More Momentum
3. Billions Needed to Improve Great Lakes, Coalition Says
4. Houses in Gated Communities: Security in All Seasons
5. A Son of Two Nations, Stoically Searching for His Father
6. A Children’s Troupe, Homeward Bound
7. CardSystems Sets Plan to Comply With Security Standards
8. A Noisy Upstairs Neighbor Is Just the Beginning of a Rental Nightmare
9. On Saturn, a Spacecraft Is Finding New Worlds
10. A Commentary on the Ruthless Pursuit of the News, With Some Cat-and-Mouse Thrown In
For those newcomers to the Reverse Shot blog, this weekly column pays tribute to the wonderful article titling abilities of everyone’s favorite big-city maybe-liberal daily paper. Below are the titles of ten articles, your task is to pick the four that head real movie reviews. Without peeking. Someday we may give prizes for this.
1. Amid the Pulp, a Meditation on Fathers, Sons and the Ties That Choke
2. A Scary Crash, a Thwarted Deal and Then Plan B
3. Voice of the Boss and a Voice of Reason
4. Reluctant Coach, Bad Team and, of Course, Redemption
5. When Preaching Globalized Ethics Is Just Corporate P.R.
6. A Place in the Mood for Anything
7. Senate Approves Central American Free Trade Pact
8. How a Japanese Master Enlightened the West
9. A Story of Unusual Love, Minus All the Complications
10. A Riddle of a Romance Stricken by a Different Kind of Love Bug
Hit it.
1. Unclear on American Campus: What the Foreign Teacher Said
2. Trying to Update the 60’s, Just a Twitch at a Time
3. Under a Bridge, and on Top of the World
4. Adulterous Romance in a Fractious World
5. New EBay Service Aims to Stem Merchant Exodus
6. At Your Request, a Bespoke Adventure
7. Lord Love a VW Bug That Knows Its Mind
8. An Affair of Their Art
9. The Lives and Loves (Perhaps) of Emperor Penguins
10. U.S. and Europe Differ on Testing Athletes for Rare Heart Ailment
I had a good time with the new format used in last week’s edition, so I think I’ll stick with it for a while. It occurred to me that it might also make sense to post the answers at some point, so I’ll try to do this on Monday from now on.
Here goes. Pick the real four:
1. Many Still Seek One Final Say on Ending Life
2. What Price Authenticity?
3. An Artistic Eye Wide Open, Observing Odd, Lost Souls
4. When Blurry Lines Divide Fact, Fiction and Family
5. When Astronauts Brief Congress, a Little Levity Goes a Long Way
6. New Jersey Won’t Make Deadline to Transfer Mentally Ill Youths
7. Dark Was the Young Knight Battling His Inner Demons
8. Giants Still Healing From Last Year
9. A Corporate Moral Slide on a Wartime Oil Slick
10. Not Ready for Their Close-Up
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