Word: confessions
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...Johnny Nitro first pranced across my television screen, I knew I had begun a life-long obsession with something truly stupid. Any entertainment where dry ice and theme music are essential to plot development is not the kind of thing one discusses in polite company. But still, I must confess: I love professional wrestling. To this day, I maintain a crush on The Raven, a scrawny little Gothic dude who always won the “Cage Matches” by beating his opponents over the head with metal folding chairs...
...confess. I'm desperate for a Nats winning streak. But if I can't get that, and I can't get therapy, what I need is fall: cool air, falling leaves, oral arguments at the Supreme Court. And no baseball. Hurry...
...Shooting Stars, the Tavianis' style is surrealism made simple. Their fantastic fables are filtered through a peasant ruggedness; their images are as clear as a Giotto fresco; the actors find precision in the volcanic gestures of Italian opera. In one scene, Bat sits alone in the town square to confess the origin of his ailment, and a flashback shows the infant Bat in a field at night, his huge eyes transfixed by the harlot moon. No minimalist torpor for the Tavianis--every frame is over the top and on the money...
...Reserve Board. "Independent agencies would bite the dust," warns Stanford University Law Professor Gerald Gunther. When Administration Lawyer Fried tried to assure the court last week that such arguments were simply a scare tactic, he got a quick reply from Justice O'Connor. "Mr. Fried," she said, "I'll confess you scared...
...confess that when General Roy called, I didn’t know where Rwanda was or exactly what kind of trouble the country was in,” Dallaire writes in his book...