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...Unfortunately, there's one major flaw in the production and his name is Brecht. For what would a musical from the mind of a Harvard student be without a dash of the self-aware, of meta-theater? According to the program notes, the show was originally intended to (nudge-nudge) "undercut itself and criticize its own genre, a film-noir that constantly threatens to take a sharp left at the road to reality." There is an incessant riffing on the stereotypes of "good guy" and "bad guy" and on the formulaic nature of film-noir movies in general. Such...
...smaller adults and most children at risk. When an air bag deploys, its force is directed into what would be a grown man's chest. Women and children, on the other hand, end up taking the brunt of the energy in the head and neck - a design flaw that's been fatal in 158 cases since 1990. (Air bags have, however, also saved an estimated 5,500 lives.) Friday's announcement follows considerable criticism of the government's mandated crash test procedure in the past decade. This clamor is unlikely to die down any time in the near future; transportation...
...tendency to make these claims reveals the book's flaw-Make Love, Not War is too ambitious. Allyn cannot hope to answer every claim about the sexual revolution, nor can he describe every movement. Yet he believes he can. The punishment for this inflated sense of purpose is these claims, too humorous to ishment for this inflated sense of purpose is these claims, too humorous to actually enliven the book. One especially tasty bit of stupidity reads, "American nudists had long been fighting their own actually enliven the book. One especially tasty bit of stupidity reads, "American nudists had long...
...Smith & Wesson was negotiating its safer-handguns deal with the Clinton Administration, the largest U.S. gunmaker was also secretly negotiating with a former Alexandria, Ohio, police sergeant who had discovered a potentially deadly design flaw in its semiautomatic pistols. Jeff Perry said he contacted the gunmaker after his 9-mm unexpectedly went off during a firearms-training session. The company's safety manuals for the gun say that if the user removes the magazine from the gun, it cannot fire even if a round is left in the chamber. However, Perry found that if slight pressure...
SONY Another PlayStation 2 flaw sends shares sliding, but it's still the joystick of choice...