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...that's not Dimitri's mission. His job is to extract Sergei from his happiness quietly, without alarming anyone, and politely conduct him to prison, humiliation, death. This Sergei does not know until it is too late. And neither do we. Like him, we are disarmed by the sweetness of this life, so richly detailed by Mikhalkov. The genius of his film lies in his refusal to foreshadow, for it makes the outcome more chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining, the music playing...
...where she was," says surgeon Rick Nelson, who had to climb over corpses to get to her. "She was completely covered in rubble, twisted metal framing and electrical conduit of about two inches in diameter. She seemed to be wrapped around a metal chair." It took three hours to extract Brandy, while Nelson gave her oxygen and cheered her along with small talk. "I told her she was being treated by the best-looking surgeon in Oklahoma," he said. "Stuff like that...
...gave a first-hand account of life in a concentration camp, his family's death, being a dentist in Auschwitz, were he had to extract gold teeth from corpses. "We were no longer people in Auschwitz. We became numbers. [I was] number 141129," he said, pointing to his left forearm where the number was tattooed...
...usual style, the press couldn't extract any statements or comments from the University until the Administrative Board stopped deliberating. But this episode--which occurred off University property and involved a non-student--should have been the subject of open inquiry...
...teaspoon vanilla extract...