Word: guttering
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...initially said they wanted to discuss a business deal in Basra. But they soon pulled out pistols, hustled al-Falahi into a waiting black BMW and drove off. Two days later, police recovered the body of al-Falahi, with a single bullet through his forehead, from a roadside gutter in northern Baghdad...
...have his Autobiography (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 289 pages), an artless but entertaining memoir, the story of a man, now 82, who says his father once warned him, "My boy, you'll end up in the gutter. All you think of is girls and photos." Where he ended up instead was Monte Carlo, with stops in London, Paris and Hollywood. He lived a life on the move, first as a young Jew fleeing from Hitler all the way to Australia, then as an ambitious photographer making his way back to the centers of the universe. His parents and brother escaped...
...streets are cracked, garbage lies in the gutter, and the main streets are lined by a collection of auto body shops, gas stations and fast food restaurants...
...squatters of Helsinki. But in Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past, it's also blessed with stray kindnesses. An electrician wires up the storage bin, and when the Man (Markku Peltola) asks, "What do I owe you?" the electrician answers, "If you see me facedown in the gutter, turn me on my back." A Salvation Army worker (Kati Outinen) gives the Man Christian charity, and a bit more...
...Martin is wary of being forced into the stereotype of rags to riches or underprivileged kid does good. In his case, it just isn’t true, he says. “I’m not going to give you the bullshit that I came from the gutter and pulled myself up by the bootstraps. It’s not that drastic, I come from a middle-class family.” Though she admits that she could have been better prepared for college, Mendez doesn’t feel estranged from her classmates who attended more exclusive...