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What a shame that they should even be able to speak about these virtues. They should have looked around and beheld their own Square. What courage does it take for Cambridge to proclaim itself a "Nuclear-Free Zone," yet lot pollution choke its residents? What bravery does it take to stand for "animal rights," while a motley mass of humanity sleeps sprawled out on the sidewalks? To these questions, Li and I have only one answer: "Clear the Square...
...others, it might even be the game itself, Harvard's blanketing defense and effective offense and Yale's irremediable tendency to choke-off key scoring opportunities...
Gomez refuses to recognize any artistic content the film may or may not have. He is completely pretension-free. One wonders what will happen if he finally does accept a big deal and starts to get paid for bullshit--will it hit the fan or will Gomez choke...
...they couldn't completely cover my mouth, because I couldn't breathe. You'd get exhaust fumes underneath the truck. I was deathly afraid during one move that I was going to vomit -- I was very sick, and of course my mouth was taped up -- and that I would choke to death on my vomit. When we went to South Lebanon, it was four or five hours underneath that thing...
Which brings us to the matter of the police. Under Daryl Gates, the Los Angeles Police Department became an army, not a police force. With its battering rams and paramilitary uniforms, its choke holds and Taser guns, it set the hard-nosed, Magnum Force, make-my-day standard for urban law enforcement through the '70s and '80s. In the process, it became so muscle- bound and senseless that it was unable to cope rationally with a traffic hazard named Rodney King, let alone with rioters and looters. Here too L.A. takes us into a Blade Runner future...