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...vigor of these films is easy to spot; they move with such speed and confidence. They often begin in an efficient fury. Nosotros los pobres...! is a folk opera, a neorealist musical, opens with an elaborate production number, "Ni hablar, mujer," composed by Manuel Esperón, who wrote songs for 34 Infante films (and who, apparently, is still alive at 95). In a few mins., the film introduces us to two dozen characters with singing, strumming, speaking or whistling parts, as the camera glides, pans or swoops to keep up with them...
...problem is, she seems to be very much in the mood to talk. Chunks of Skylab begin to fall from the sky, and fed up with it all, Witherspoon kills herself by standing right in their path. When the lights come up again, we find her perched on an armrest, explaining why Skylab is crashing to earth in a way that seems more like a fourth-grade teacher than one of Durang’s trademark paranoid neurotics...
...stopped. The journey takes about two months door-to-door. Once the customer gets to his destination, he calls his family, who then hand over to the snakehead's local contact the smuggling fee - usually a combination of savings and money borrowed from underground banks. The immigrant will then begin slowly working off the debt through poorly paid labor - a process that can take from two to 10 years. "Most people pay off their debts," says the snakehead. "It's not because we threaten them. It's because we know their family and their friends back home. People...
...black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way." JIMMY (THE GREEK) SNYDER, sports commentator, in a 1988 television interview AFTERMATH: Snyder, who was well liked, apologized but was later fired by CBS. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...Legal experts say it is only after exhausting those alternative sources of information that the Congressional committees would decide whether or not to compel Goodling's testimony, a step that involves several additional hurdles. To begin with, an immunity offer - presumably from the Senate or House Judiciary Committees - would require a two-thirds vote of those committees. That would mean Republicans as well as Democrats would have to support the move, hardly a given. However, Republicans might have a difficult time standing in the way of Goodling's testimony if it were portrayed by Democrats as essential part...