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Hoping to foil his plan, Lola also alerts all the banks in his old neighborhood, and even the police. Heck pulls off the job anyway. His eventual doom and/or salvation is decided by Lola's implacably honest father...
...positions," contends Kurland's Chicago colleague, Phil Neal. As a result, new constitutional claims by a variety of special-interest groups?tenants, ecologists, the poor, welfare recipients, consumers?are not likely to be warmly received. A similar desire to stay out of new constitutional waters may well doom such pending contentions as the claim that the death penalty is cruel and inhuman punishment, thus a violation of the Eighth Amendment...
...father on theater excursions to Chicago. On his first day at school, Tom insisted on inspecting the stage and declared it "lacking." With his father's help, he installed footlights and a wind machine. At twelve he wrote the music and libretto of his first opera ?entitled The Doom of the Earth. Soon after, he was laid up for a year with incipient TB, and he used the time to "structure my life." In high school he ran his own drama and choral groups, and at De Paul University he wrote another opera for his master's thesis...
...also fills much of the days that are shown. And getting along in the Britain of Sunday Bloody Sunday means to cope with institutions which press people into patterns, with crowds whose mass indifference breeds indifferent hate, with daily news bulletins which predict national disaster in stentorian tones of doom. (Seeing the film in the U.S. makes the voicing of Eden-like attitudes towards America seem an additional cruelty). If muted passions give the characters their interest, the way they react to dulling workday situations reveals their depths...
...nonsystem of isolated societies with more or less of the totalitarian qualities evident aboard the Neversink in Melville's White Jacket. With some encouraging exceptions, the principal distinction of the prisons is failure. More than $1 billion a year is spent to produce results that would swiftly doom any other enterprise...