Word: excepts
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...cued epidemic amounts of head-scratching from the industry solons. Is it just that the masses don't want to see sophisticated espionage capers starring, ugh, a girl? For now, let's not put the burden on Julia. Best to blame the title, which promises the average moviegoer nothing except a problem pronouncing it to the multiplex ticket seller. Only two live-action films with one-word, four-syllable titles have ever grossed more than $100 million total; and the two that did, Phenomenon and Collateral, just barely scraped that number...
...course, we know now there was no actual work going on, either by Chais' New York people (i.e. Madoff), or by himself, except collecting money and distributing money, much like Madoff and Fairfield Greenwich, and all the other feeder funds. Chais' lawyer, Eugene Licker of Loeb & Loeb, was unavailable for comment. Ezra Merkin's lawyer, Andrew Levander of Dechert LLP, was also not available for comment...
...Morgan or the stunt supervisors may have peeked at the 1954 car-chase movie called The Fast and the Furious, which also begins with a truck careering down a winding road, crashing and bursting into flames - except in the original, the whole thing took exactly 10 seconds. The opening scene runs about 10 minutes and is a smartly choreographed ballet mécanique. But Rodriguez's character isn't around much longer; Letty gets killed soon after. Fortunately, when Dom examines the crime scene, he turns out to have skills as both a specialist in tire-tread forensics...
...acknowledge the presence of sexual assault—however indirect—in their own lives.The most powerful impact of “Saturday Night” takes place in the minds of the contributors themselves. Survivors write anonymously and are guaranteed that their work will not be edited except for grammar and identifying details. According to Rankin, for some, “the act of writing their story is healing and cathartic in itself, and they hadn’t expected it.” While survivors are at different stages in the healing process when they begin...
...patient.” says one member of the VES faculty who asked not to be named. “For someone who is a real painter, it’s a very serious thing, it is a profession, and at most schools they seem to understand that except here...