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...flaws of his Marxist ideology. The film does not glorify the Russians, it glorifies heros, and certainly this strategy is better than the glorification of the Red Army. However, the deification of Vassily at the end of the film detracts from the overall sense of horror that we glean from the devastating scenes...
...TIME.com: What can we glean from that consumer confidence report...
...about the cow's brain--that crucial fact!--could lead some talented detective to the solution and bring down the house of cards. ("Raw cow's brain? Yes...it all fits! The winner is Colby!") Last year rabid fans scoured video stills and images swiped from CBS computers to glean clues, some accurate, some not, about which Survivor would next get booted. But Burnett played the would-be spoilers like a baby grand, impishly editing footage and planting red-herring files at the official website to flummox them. At the S2 location, besieged by journalists spying from...
...Casey says it is "hard to glean conclusions from campaign-type situations" in terms of how the candidates' proposals would affect Harvard's policies...
...dangerous ground." Still others argue that if you censor erotica, the public will find other ways of getting it - and that could drive the trade underground, either into speakeasy-type establishments or onto web sites serving up such fare. But even First Amendment advocates must have been able to glean some entertainment value from the case - after all, it's not every day that you hear Sandra Day O'Connor pontificate on the erotic value lost when a naked woman dons a G-string...