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...some time, until one night when there happened to be someone sitting quietly in the next room. A phone call brought the full force of the city police department down on Charles. Remarkably athletic, he ran - though the backyards and over fences. Then he turned a corner around a brick building and a police cruiser spotted him. As he ran along the wall the cop in the car tried to block his escape by driving right up to the bricks. Charles didn't quite make it past as the car hit the wall; his upper leg was crushed against...
...million insects working in blind harmony. Mounds can reach 7 m high and 12 m around the base, and may have taken a century or more of painstaking construction. The termites mix a drop of saliva with soil, plant matter and excrement and deposit it like a tiny brick; somehow, in the darkness, each knows where to place its contribution to form the maze of tunnels and chambers that harden like concrete...
...just left his wife (Shirley Knight). Released in 1968, this astringent love story, which Lester (A Hard Day's Night) chopped up and brilliantly reassembled for the DVD, is full of awkward tenderness and eruptions of violence. It's a flawless, essential study of despair and compassion. Brick Rian Johnson...
...that the joke is not a joke at all but a pertinent metaphor for that vulnerable time of life when every street looks mean, every love affair could be fatal. Written in 1997, shot in 2003 (for less than $500,000) and finally released early this year, Brick is so handsomely made, so insolently assured, that you have to wonder what took the moneymen so long to realize that Johnson had talent. May it not be another nine years before his next film...
...June 20, 2001, when the police reached his modest brick home on Beachcomber Lane in suburban Houston, they found Andrea drenched with bathwater, her flowery blouse and brown leather sandals soaking wet. She had turned on the bathroom faucet to fill the porcelain tub and moved aside the shaggy mat to give herself traction for kneeling on the floor. It took a bit of work for her to chase down the last of the children; toward the end, she had a scuffle in the family room, sliding around on wet tile below a poster that proclaimed the epithets of Christ...