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...honest, the young guys did all the work for me,” McLean-Foreman said. “And I was pretty pumped up to run a really fast leg but I didn’t have...
...technology can't surmount. "What is he saying?" one man asks. Satellite, whose grasp of English stretches to "Hello," stares intently at the screen, as if trying to find just the right words. "He says it's going to rain," the boy replies. Such wry scenes come thick and fast in the first half of Turtles Can Fly, the third feature from Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, which started its Europe-wide release in Britain last week. It's his funniest film yet, which is surprising, given that it is populated by children who have lost limbs to the land mines...
Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and relentlessly happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling, except for that guy who keeps losing loans to Ditech. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. (Tolstoy clearly never edited a shelter mag.) And since these messages have an agenda--to pry our wallets from our pockets--they make the very idea of happiness seem bogus. "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks...
Playing a high-energy, risk-taking brand of basketball has something to do with that stat. Jess Holsey’s daring passes and Katie Murphy’s breakneck fast breaks don’t always lead to baskets, but they nevertheless take the Crimson to where it ought to be—out of its shell and stomping on the Big Green...
...both netminders. Each turned away breakaways, smothered blistering slapshots, reacted with lightning-fast pad saves and stymied endless brief shifts of momentum that swung back and forth all contest...