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...main phases: noirish melodramas in the '40s, westerns in the '50s, epics in the '60s. Nothing unusual here, since these were the dominant genres of their decades, and nearly every director of middling or higher status was obliged to try his hand at them. But Mann did more than crank out the sausage on order. He turned it into sirloin...
...Bush's liking earlier this spring, closer to their more hard-line position. But a more subtle game may be afoot among Republicans, designed to strengthen the compromise plan of Rep. Mike Pence - first reported on TIME.com - that leans in the direction of the hard-line House; it would crank up border security, have a modest guest worker program and insist that illegals leave the country before reapplying for citizenship...
...never sold. Gas prices start sliding down again and people go back to driving as they've always driven while listening to the same music on their stereos and tuning out the same discouraging news about global warming, Middle East politics and bumper-to-bumper traffic on the interstates. Crank the Pearl...
...maintains that she continues to press the council about these issues every week because the city neglects to take action. “There’s an attempt of the city to dismiss me and characterize me as some crank who comes in there every week, but I’m interested in them bringing the city into compliance...the city is actively ignoring the federal law,” Podgers insists...
...beloved Uncle Buddy knew how to put out a spread that included a ham or a roast, corn bread, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, lima beans, fruit pies and bottomless flagons of iced tea. If the future President arrived early enough, he even got to help turn the crank on the ice cream maker...