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...stiff actor, and only in the emotionally draining scene at the film’s conclusion do his acting lessons bear fruit. Screenwriter Steven Kloves, adapter of all four film versions, redeems himself for the gaping plot holes of “Prisoner of Azkaban” with an airtight “Goblet” script. With so many significant plot elements missing (Hermione’s humane S.P.E.W. campaign, house elves Dobby and Winky), one would think a two-and-a-half-hour version of the 734-page book would suffer from confusing narrative jumps. But Kloves deftly...
Increasingly there is widespread admiration for the airtight airport security in Israel. Although time-consuming precautions breed jokes that El Al stands for "Every Landing, Always Late," the Israeli airline has suffered no hijackings since 1968. Security at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport ranges from piece-by-piece luggage inspection to exhaustive questioning of passengers, who are advised to check in two hours ahead of departure time. On most flights, air marshals with concealed Uzi submachine guns pose as passengers...
...bones they protected. In the 1970s he bought a demountable shed for the backyard of his outback station in western Queensland to store his collection of the rare cylinders, which he calls "assemblages." He installed climate control and a radar alarm system, and placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector for one of the bodies, which he has described as the Australian equivalent of the pharaonic mummies from Egypt's Valley of the Kings...
Donato praised Colgate as well, though he did say that the generally airtight Crimson squad “did some things we don’t normally...
Donato agreed, though he did admit that his generally airtight squad “did some things we don’t normally...