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...turns out, a little too perfect. For Tom, though a devoted husband and a father to two daughters, likes having another man around the house--someone with whom he can share a pint of beer, a game of pool, a few confidences. For obvious reasons, Frankie has to be a little guarded in the last department. On the other hand, he became a terrorist because as a young boy he witnessed his father being gunned down by Unionist terrorists, and gruff-tough-sentimental-principled Tom fills an obvious need...
...doesn't make a lot of sense." Wells wonders about the perils of prosperity: "It's difficult for some people to conceive of anything that is really much better than this life. Sure, they go to bed appalled by the 11 o'clock news. But those buddies on the beer commercial saying 'It doesn't get much better than this' are speaking more deeply than they realize...
...anywhere else. Sure, the architecture here can be painful. I didn't come to Harvard to live in a concrete box but so be it. But in a school so uncollegiate, it's nice to come home on a Saturday night and hear chanting teams and smell waves of beer stench from down the hall. Maybe that doesn't sound fun, but sometimes it can be a little depressing to look at the glow of computer screens in the wee hours of the weekend nights at the theoretically most crazy-fun time of life...
...latte or a tray of Cajun fries. A typical game costs $1.25 a play. Upstairs there's an Internet lounge where you can surf the Web for 12[cents] a minute or pursue retro-tech avocations such as pinball and air hockey while you sip a beer made at GameWorks' very own brewery...
Violently, of course, is how it plays out. But as matters rumble toward a good, tough-guy ending, what sounds real is not so much the corrupt politics of the construction business as the shot-and-a-beer talk of the guys who wear hard hats. Kelly knows how the palaver goes in the kind of bar that doesn't have ferns, the boozy, unchanging gab about sports, women and the System that defines the deep, edgy pessimism of blue- collar men. "Einstein" is what they call Billy, out of class respect and class resentment. But as shots are heard...