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Ostensibly, Angel Heart deals with hard-boiled detective Harry Angel's (Mickey Rourke) quest for a long missing crooner Johnny Favorite. Favorite has been absent since his return from World War II, where a head wound left his a vegetable and permanently disfigured. Angel is commissioned in this fruitless search by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert DeNiro) who needs proof of Favorite's death in order to collect collateral from a contract he had with the singer...
These would-be plunderers attempted to steal only one oversized pumpkin, but their efforts were fruitless. Dining hall sleuths tracked the piefilling pilferers, who were apprehended by Swarthmore security...
...then, everyone loves fruitless speculation, especially when the mirage of hope glimmers on the horizon. After all, even the Red Sox can pull it off now and then. So when the mini-summit in Iceland between Reagan and Gorbachev was announced, a universal gasp of optimism went up: maybe this year something would actually happen...
...legs," Scalise said of his squad's fruitless first half. "Providence actually took the play away from us. What kept us in the game was that we were very solid defensively...
...meantime, the DEA agents are growing increasingly weary of their dangerous and often fruitless Mexican duty. That deepening sense of frustration was recently voiced by one drawn DEA man who was counting the days until he could leave. "In some places," the agent complained, "you have to work your tail off, but at the end of the day you know you've accomplished something. Not here. I just want...