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...Rescue Board, worries that people will hesitate to call for help if they know it will come with a price tag. He points to numerous anecdotes in which people, fearing costs, have refused rescue despite grim injuries: a climber who hobbled down a 3,000-ft. mountain with a broken ankle; a woman who set out on her own to locate her missing husband; a lost and bewildered runner who hid from rescue crews. "We know that when people believe that they are going to receive a large bill for a SAR mission, they delay a call for help...
...hours on his newly purchased bed.It is already apparent by the time Brian covers the girl with a blanket and gingerly removes the plastic demonstration skeleton from her side that something will happen between the two of them. What is not expected is that the obvious tension will be broken just the next day by Happy’s frank question: “Do you have any interest in having sex with me?”The film’s greatest strength is its ability to invest the everyday with humor. Brian’s life before meeting...
...grit and realism.It is certainly a daunting task for any director—let alone a first-time director—to reframe suburbia. In “Lymelife,” Derick Martini not only reframes it but also commendably reconstructs it as a plasticized, broken Eden. Sitting complacently at her desk, Mrs. Bragg exclaims in the film, “It’s the American dream, right? You’re on Long Island!” Perhaps the answer to her rhetorical question, however, is best conveyed by the gunshot that draws the film...
...Tomorrow you will go to a comedy show, an a cappella jam, more info meetings, and another ice-cream social. You will stagger home, chastened and broken in spirit, pursued by incessant e-mails from organizations you signed up for in a frenzy induced by three hours of 1920s jazz standards...
...even between the contestants themselves. The real battle is a war against our better judgment, a struggle to convince us that a woman can emote a love ballad without ever having been kissed (as Ms. Boyle has stated of herself) or that a young boy from a broken home can rise to superstardom. In some viewers, the battle has already been won. Both of the contestants have received praise from twittering couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. Rosie O’Donnell has even, I kid you not, posted a 32 line poem on her website inspired by Boyle entitled...