But few were ready to endorse the terrorism practiced by Mr. bin Laden.
The colors, and much of the NoMad's flavor, result from the creative deployment of vegetables practiced by Mr. Humm and his chef de cuisine, Abram Bissell.
Mr. Risi's most productive period was the 1960s, when commedia all'italiana, as practiced by Mr. Risi and other filmmakers like Pietro Germi, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola and Luigi Comencini enjoyed an international reputation.
It was the nation's first taste of the politics of division practiced by Mr. Bush and Karl Rove that became the guiding principle of Mr. Bush's presidency: winning justifies denying any role to the losers — even dissenting Republicans.
"But I just read it as, like, 'I'm... trying... to... think... what... I'm... supposed... to... say.' " Mr. Ferrell said he did not consider his portrayal of Mr. Bush a dead-on imitation and that he did not bring the sort of precise observation to his act practiced by Mr. Hammond, who studies hours of tapes for facial tics and idiosyncrasies of speech.
That's a fraud practiced by people like Mr. Madoff, in which ever-increasing numbers of people are enticed by the promise of high, steady returns.
Complex strategies long practiced by George Soros and Mr. Meriwether are resurgent, as are funds that invest in emerging markets and distressed securities and those that bet against the stock market by short selling.
Ms. Binoche is such an aggressively wholesome proponent of good times -- D. H. Lawrence's "Mary Poppins" -- that the sanctimony practiced by the mayor (Mr. Molina) seems a lot more inviting (Mitchell).
Quant investing, as practiced by the likes of Mr. Asness, Mr. Simons and others, has been enormously successful.
American film criticism, as practiced by the participants in Mr. Perry's documentary, may be better than the American film of the moment deserves.
For Max and Mina's Ice Cream Open in Manhattan, Mr. Lerman practiced by eating half a gallon a day and in the finals wolfed down 6 pounds, 9 ounces of butter-cream vanilla in 12 minutes.
