Word: doorstep
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...does that and more. The highest-rating debut on U.S. cable last year, and a surprise hit from Australia to the U.K., the show introduced agent Skouris exercising on a treadmill - which was just as well since over 4,000 alien-abducted "returnees" were about to land on her doorstep; she and her offsider agent Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) would be put in charge of unraveling their back-stories. Now with the coming of a new series, McKenzie's eyes narrow on to the role like someone at target practice. She has always been one of the hardest-working actresses around...
...homosexuality (a five-year marriage ended in divorce in the mid-1990s) and a tip about his alleged predilection for boys, the paper had months earlier begun investigating his personal life. The results of that probe, which culminated in a controversial Internet sting operation, landed on Spokane's collective doorstep on May 5 like a paper bomb. "For a quarter-century," the report began, "the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust--as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician--to develop sexual relationships with boys and young...
...some seedy process server comes to the door tell them a mile away, some down at the heels hopeless looking bastard they get seven dollars a summons he has to hand it to you, has to touch you with it, see some burnt out case out here on the doorstep you open it and all he says is Mrs Booth? hits you with the paper and that's it, don't open the door...
Some U.S. officials privately complain that many Mexican police aid the Zetas. And other potential microcartels are proliferating on the U.S.'s doorstep: in the Tijuana--San Diego corridor, police are dealing with a gang known as Narco-Juniors, a group of affluent juvenile delinquents recruited as hit men in the 1990s by the Tijuana drug cartel. Authorities in the Juarez--El Paso corridor, meanwhile, report a growing presence of the Mara Salvatrucha, a machete-wielding gang that has terrified Central America in recent years. The threat from groups like the Zetas may persist for years. "This is like...
...overwrought" when they fail, films that swamp our eyes and yank at our hearts. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from...