Travel agents report booming business from Bulgarian tourists who want to visit the restaurants, villas and tryst spots frequented by the star-crossed duo.
Despite the giant gap in the public mind between organic farming, which bans artificial pesticides and fertilizers, and gene modification, the couple was never exactly star-crossed.
The genders have been reversed but the supernatural, star-crossed teen angst remains firmly intact in "Beautiful Creatures, " which clearly aims to pick up where the "Twilight" franchise left off.
Vivendi's shares have fallen 7% since the news leaked out, Seagram's stock trades at 26% below the offering price, and reporters stumble over themselves to chortle at Vivendi's star-crossed ambitions.
The unsecret ingredient of its rampant success was turning a dog-eared, dog-eat-dog premise into a coming-of-age story about a strong, resourceful girl, then widening it into a fable of star-crossed lovers.
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So, in this sense, star-crossed is appropriate.
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Akamai's chief since mid-2005, he believes this star-crossed company has arrived at a magical moment in tech history, able to at least double its capacity every year and in the process disrupt vast swathes of the global economy.
Even with an arsenal of razors at hand, Sweeney comes across as more of a misfit than a murderer, and the romantic subplot, about a pair of star-crossed lovers (Jamie Campbell Bower and Jayne Wisener), verges on the twee.
One setback after another kept him from realizing his athletic potential at McKay and his star-crossed athletic career seemed in jeopardy once again early this spring, when a hamstring injury delayed the start of his final high school track season.
Perhaps star-crossed is a bit strong.
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Time was when you could give audiences a thrill simply by casting young actors in the title roles, but ever since Franco Zeffirelli filmed the sorrowful tale of the star-crossed lovers in 1968, that expedient has come to be taken for granted.
The six-time All-Star suggested that retirement hasn't crossed his mind, and that part of the reason he had the scope was so he could play again on the right knee without worrying so much about its problems.
Partly because their star player, fly-half Quade Cooper, was born in Tokoroa in the North Island and only crossed "the ditch" to live in Queensland 10 years ago.
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