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Police concerns piqued during the traffic stop and subsequent field investigation when Palestinian activist Amer Jubran, who was sitting at Au Bon Pain, saw the police interrogating Abouazza and offered his services as a translator. (According to court records, Abouazza does not speak fluent English...
Later that afternoon, Chu faced an even stronger opponent, No. 4 seed Amer Delic of Illinois. There would be no upset this time, unfortunately. Chu tore a stomach muscle in the match and could never mount a serious challenge against Delic...
Life expectancy at birth 1995-2000 Northern America 76.7 Oceania 73.5 Europe 73.2 Lat. Amer., Carib. 69.3 Asia 65.8 Africa...
...This loose remake of "The Desperate Hours," or possibly "The Virgin Spring" - three snarling strippers take a young couple hostage - got its grit from the actress Meyer calls "the demanding / mind-bludgeoning Tura Satana." A spiked cocktail of Amer-Asian genes, Satana had been stripping since she was 13 (the year she was married, according to one source) and played Suzette Wong in Billy Wilder's "Irma La Douce." At 30, she looked millennia older, not wiser but wizened, relying on reptilian instincts of survival and predation. Her Varla is the most honest, maybe the one honest, portrayal...
...pattern is forming for the new fashion in Amer-indies. Start with a teasingly obscure title; gaze fascinatedly at people in more trouble than they know; give lots of screen space and time to yearning stares; and, about 40 min. into the anomie, kill off a soulful son with a surprise gun blast. That's the recipe for In the Bedroom, which won a slew of critics' awards, and for Monster's Ball, a pained drama that is better than it sounds...