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...cinemetography is good, direction OK. The closing scenes (namely McKellen's acting) make me cry. I shiver as the cold numbers (the "Butcher's Bill"), like ticker tape, flash periodically at the bottom of the screen. Elton John's "The Last Song" haunts me. Reagan's inglorious ascent parallels perfectly the disease's inaugural progress. Gays are bestowed some sympathetic representation. Best line: "I'm not afraid of dying anymore. I'm afraid for the people who live...
Value-shopping is one thing. But the next time turkey legs are the discount item-of-the-week at the local butcher shop, Harvard's food buyers should recognize that something is afowl...
...carried out. "Somewhere the system has made a mistake," she says. "If Mr. Shaw was in prison, the system should have known that he was mentally ill. If he was so mentally ill, he shouldn't have been allowed to work in a vegetable-cutting room with butcher knives. He has this voice that says, 'Kill this person.' I'm sorry for his condition. But what is the point of dragging this out? I can't say I'm pro capital punishment. I can't say I'm against it. But if I did the crime and someone sentenced...
Barnes was the classic American self-made man. The son of a black-Irish Philadelphia butcher, he went through medical school and made his fortune in the early 1900s on an antiseptic, which he developed in partnership with a German chemist and registered under the trade name Argyrol. Even before World War I, Barnes was a millionaire -- a word with meaning then. And he was developing a curiosity about modern...
...long as I consider the safety of the inhabitants at risk." Those were brave words from a soldier who up to then had had few admirers. He had drawn criticism from the U.N. contingent in the Bosnian capital for hobnobbing with Serbian militia chiefs, like Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Sarajevo," and for not forthrightly denouncing Serbian aggression. His orders from the U.N. were not to use force and not to take sides, and he stuck firmly -- perhaps too firmly -- to those instructions...