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...captivity--the need to shut out the scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...
...makers of the "The Frighteners" are apparently that breed of intrepid, cost-cutting pioneers who have decided that the story should be the first to go in trimming the fat from bloated production budgets. So many weak little plot lines criss-cross and entangle as surely as extension cords that we wish that one of Bannister's friends, a refugee from the 70's, would appear so that we could grab his ample lapels and shake some sense into the movie...
...presidential candidates continue to criss-cross the country campaigning for votes, the Institute of Politics (IOP) is gearing up to get students involved in the election season with new blood and fresh ideas...
...says real discourse has barely begun. The book provides ample evidence that most encounters between humans have been "missed opportunities." History, he notes, "has so far largely been a chronicle of ability gone to waste." Nonetheless, he believes that "the earth is in the early stages of being criss-crossed afresh by invisible threads, threads uniting individuals who differ by all conventional criteria but who are finding they have aspirations in common...
Lastly, The Crimson editorial points out that Weld "authorized" an education reform act and "signed into law" a school choice plan. These laws were written by none other than Roosevelt. He spent a year of this life criss-crossing the state to build up support for these measures, while Bill Weld spent his afternoons on the squash court...