Word: clockwork
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...Haine (Hate), which portrayed banlieue life with brutal realism. For French online media commentator David Abiker, Stress is "a modern work of art in its own right," worthy of the son of legendary filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Stress clearly evokes groundbreaking films such as La Haine, Man Bites Dog, and Clockwork Orange. Yet for the French daily Libération, "it's above all an absence of point of view that remains." Worse, laments Le Monde, far from dispelling clichés about the banlieue, the video leaves one feeling that the filmmakers "have ended up joining those they wish...
...topics raised in South African crime novels reflects the trends out on the streets. Margie Orford, author of Like Clockwork and Blood Rose, focuses on the endemic violence against women and children. "I think we are in a state of civil war against women and children and the perpetrators of violent crime are overwhelmingly male," she says. "There is a sense of unbridled misogyny and entitlement...
...less than eight points in the second half. The high-point of the night came at the 16:12 mark, as Unger drained another three to put his team up 19. After a Penn layup, Lin came right back with another trey. Penn tried to claw back, but like clockwork, Lin matched each short-term burst of offense for Penn with another mid-range dagger.On a night where jumpers came easy and threes came cheap, Lin and Unger each had 21 points to lead all scorers. Unger shot 50 percent from the floor, including threes, and both players augmented their...
...again why the Ames straw poll deserves 10 times the attention from candidates that the entire California primary gets. Remind us why Concord has the candidates for a year and Colorado for an hour? Time to dust off those proposals for rationally paced, regional primaries, proposals that recur like clockwork every four years in the exhausted wake of another Super Tuesday...
When Captain Nicholas M. Cook arrived in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad in May, the place was like a ghost town. Nearly 50% of the homes were abandoned and the residents that remained rarely ventured out. Only the crackle of gunfire pierced the streets. "Everyday it was like clockwork - 10 to 11:30 am gunfire would start. They would break for lunch and then start up again in the afternoon," says Cook, a West Point graduate from Lansing, Michigan who is on his second tour in Iraq...