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...temptation and ultimate white-knuckled resolve in front of seedy liquor stores next to check cash-ins. Loach instead wisely lets Joe's successes speak for themselves, their very modesty giving them a fragility; at one point Joe's safe wallpapering gig almost spins into disaster when a welfare agent snaps telephoto pics to expose his outside earnings (Joe paints the agent's car). Mullen's performance is ultranaturalistic and eerily dead-on in a flashback to the bad old days (one of the really few directorial intrusions, narrated in hauntingly matter-of-fact fashion by Mullen...
...much harder to come by, i.e., one seeks evidence that a drug regularly causes a certain effect. I feel reasonably sure that neither of those evidentiary elements are available in the cases at issue, just as they are unavailable in other cases we read about every day--the Agent Orange case, the high-tension electric wire case, the artificial sweetener case, etc. In all, we are left in limbo as we seek to reach firm conclusions-and in the end the final judges of what took place are lawyers, journalists and the putative victims themselves...
...real estate agent arrived to the office on Valentine's Day to find the rear door pried open and a computer, printer, telephones and 240 sets of keys to Boston-area rental properties missing...
...yellow sweatshirt is Olyver W. Haynes, Tower Records' loss prevention agent. His job is to monitor the store's state-of-the-art security system...
This lesson is delivered most pointedly in the new series Providence, which has become the TV season's unexpected hit and given NBC its highest ratings for a new drama since the unleashing of ER. Our heroine on Providence is a thirtysomething doctor who rids herself of her agent boyfriend and Malibu beach-house life to move home to the presumably less decadent shores of Rhode Island and work at a health clinic. Similarly, over on Lifetime, "the women's network," its three first-ever original programs--the drama Any Day Now and the comedies Maggie and Oh Baby--focus...