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...children's pleas, a 66-year-old widow insists on looking for work. She manages to get a job as a seamstress but is fired after one day. Depressed and lonely, she spends a night with her daughter and son-in-law. Then she decides to try again. Fade...
...dialogue (by Robert,'Towne) well-written, the acting superb--why has "Chinatown" not withstood the test of time? Perhaps modern-day audiences don't take revelations of political and more corruption so personally anymore. Maybe the film meant more to a viewer in 1974. But meaning must evolve, not fade, and after two decades, "Chinatown" shows signs...
...determination by the press can be fatal to a political career, but Quayle is fortunate that he has a few factors working to his advantage. The first is that the press did too good a job of making Quayle out to be a joke. It refused to let him fade away, but rather constantly went after him to such an extent that some voters feel sorry for Quayle, and everyone knows who he is. Some perceive him as the victim of a vendetta, not his own actions. After all, could anyone really he that...
...season, the team was in exceptional condition. Last season the Crimson lost three close games--to Princeton, Dartmouth and league-champion Penn--after being up at halftime. In each game, fatigue was cited as a major reason for the loss: after establishing the lead, the Crimson just seemed to fade away in the fourth quarter. Saturday, despite a late-games no-huddle offense and a hard-hitting Columbia team, there were no such signs of fatigue. As center Toby Brundage said: "We seemed stronger, tougher and willing to go on forever...
...through the Carters. Even down the Black Angel. And now at the end of the Rattle River Trail, still inside the White Mountains, we agree that it was a successful trip. All the cries of 'I'm not built for this' and 'I'm really a city person' fade into the accomplishment...