DENISE GRADY Iran Is a Slow Student It's hard to find much good news about the Iranian nuclear program -- until you recall the predictions of a few years ago.
A hunched, panicky scramble along a claustrophobic passageway leads to an austere burial chamber that might almost be serene and chapel-like, until you recall that you're standing at the centre of 5m tons of limestone.
One spot even features the upbeat 1976 disco tune "You Sexy Thing" by Hot Chocolate, which might seem an odd choice until you recall these catchy words from that song: "I believe in miracles".
This summer the bill for compensation reached £27bn, which is a monstrous amount until you recall how big the sector is and how much money they have made out of us down the years.
The protesters have taken to calling themselves "protectors," a semantic distinction that can sound a little hokey until you recall the historical stereotypes of savagery that they are laboring against.
Her fans include Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Franzen, and a comparison with Chekhov has been so well reported, it risks becoming meaningless - until you recall that its originator was peppery fellow writer Cynthia Ozick.
Plus, that a Beatle is on it is cool until you recall McCartney's bland duets with Stevie Wonder ("Ebony & Ivory") and Michael Jackson ("The Girl Is Mine") -- a reminder that a co-sign from a legend is no guarantee of quality.
Until, that is, you recall that what really made Emma exceptional wasn't the cabin, or the girl, but how Vernon added lustre to those old narrative chestnuts with ghostly effects and textures of found sound.
Memorizing and remembering anything means repeating multiple times until you can recall it in your sleep (forgive the slight hyperbole, but people often find when they repeat something enough they start to dream about it).
When you are learning these core "words, phrases and idioms" by fast listening, you can put the emphasis on Pinyin (Phonetic Alphabet) and Characters at the same time until you can recall what the pinyin and English meaning are when you see a character.
