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Constantly dictating the scenes in a passive-aggressive manner, Zahedi indeed resembles his Jewish counterpart as a control freak. The movie's few merits lie in Zahedi's documentary-like style, which exposes the dynamics of his relationships with his father and sibling. The method of allowing events to unfold carries potential for rendering a great film, but doesn't suit the nervous, controlling filmmaker. This ill-suited union only succeeds in begetting a drawn-out series of irritating, contrived and poorly shot scenes of a man exhibiting his warts...
...live mouse with a human ear growing out of its back? Surely it's a freak or a fake, something out of a carnival sideshow or supermarket tabloid? No, the startling creature that showed up in newspapers and on television last week is quite real and actually serves a scientific purpose. It is the latest and most dramatic demonstration of progress in tissue engineering, a new line of research aimed at replacing body parts lost to disease, accident or, as is often the case with a missing ear, a schoolyard fight...
...College Board didn't respond to the incident with a profound apology, or even an indifferent "oops." In fact, this was neither a freak accident, nor a bureaucratic blunder. "It was not a slip-up," asserted Ray Nicosia of ETS. Defending the practice of reusing old exams, he said that ETS has been repeating versions of the SAT for "a great many years." Janice Gams of the College Board, adding to the don't-worry-we-know-what-we're-doing defense, suggested that when students have no knowledge that the exam will be repeated, "seeing the test form...
...play was a freak accident. Roy was finishing a check on a North Dakota player in the corner, when the rookie from Yarmouth, Maine stumbled and fell face-first into the metal portion of the boards before slumping down...
...Crimson can avert the rustiness, freak accidents, and adversity that have marked this season of astounding improvement over last, it has a sound chance of achieving that closure next weekend...