"Caught in the Web" is something of a comeback, drawing more than six million viewers and generating around $30 million and praise from the state-run newspaper The Global Times.
When it comes to inspiration, Mr. Yazbek, above, half Jewish and half Arab, is something of a pantheist, drawing on sources as diverse as Captain Beefheart, the German group Can, early Godard movies and Tin Pan Alley.
To Charles James, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, it is something of a draw.
A match at Old Trafford is always something of a draw but this is getting ridiculous.
Yesterday, the battle over Mr. Dixon's future was something of a draw.
Last week was something of a draw for the British architect Richard Rogers.
When it comes to domestic policy, the Republican Convention last week offered something of a draw in the battle between the Ryan and Trump agendas.
Our model, which has a statistical technique to calculate momentum, considers it something of a draw and does not give much of a bonus to either candidate based upon it.
Mr Bush was weak in the first debate, allowing Mr Kerry to win it convincingly; the second was something of a draw (though some saw a narrow Kerry win); and the third, on early impressions, went to Mr Kerry again.
By the 1960s, however, this now-boutique hotel had become something of a draw for the louche upper-crust, and since then Al Pacino, Lenny Kravitz, Frank Sinatra and Quentin Tarantino have all passed through the lavish lobby.
