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...Karl grabbed Aden and pushed him under a mattress. "I just yelled 'Get under there, lay on the floor,' and I got down with him,'' he says. Nikita and her boyfriend Michael managed to get into the hallway under mattresses, but Jenny was caught. "I heard this explosion and I looked up and saw the roof suddenly sucked 30 m up into the air, spinning around and around, and above it the sky was a weird electric blue. I felt myself being sucked upward," she says. "It was like a twister.'' Karl thought the worst: "I heard this scream...
...want to get drunk, you make time to get drunk. If you want to meet your girlfriend or boyfriend, you make time. And if you can’t find time to do it, you’re not serious,” said David Black, a well-known screenwriter, who started his week-long screenwriting seminar in Kirkland House on Monday night. It’s the same with writing, he said. Time and dedication are the name of the game. “You have to put in the hours to get control of your craft...
...theme in the book, as Carla's ideas of Mexico, loaded with all kinds of cultural assumptions, clash with the reality. Overstaying her travel visa she becomes a reverse illegal immigrant, working under the table at a language school. She stays for a time with her ex-pat quasi-boyfriend Harry, who aspires to literary greatness by living in squalor, in spite of being the scion of a wealthy family. Eventually Carla's idealism and Harry cynicism come to philosophical loggerheads as Carla accuses Harry of being a "colonialist" and Harry declares Carla a "tourist...
...local market. Memo's relentless denigration of Carla's first-world background tugs on a string of middle-class guilt and self-loathing tied around Carla's soul. Yearning for the "authentic" Mexican experience, Carla eventually ends up in a flat she shares with her new Mexican boyfriend Oscar, who dreams of becoming a DJ in America, but settles for selling pot and T-shirts to tourists. Eventually his underworld connections lead to a strange, international incident that precipitates Carla's return home...
...asked, curious about how far the purity goes. If this is a crime, isn?t a woman who seeks an abortion at least a willing accomplice? Because, Hunt says, once more citing the findings of the task force, ?she may be dealing with a lot of pressure, from family, boyfriend, husband. We have a situation in which the woman may be getting so much pressure she?s not thinking clearly.? The doctor, on the other hand, ?should be operating in a calm and collected manner, have identified all the risks to the woman; he?s counseling the woman. We think...