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...very strategic race—the first half went out in 2:50, the second half closed in 2:25—I took it out slowly and waited for someone to pass so that I could drift off her, but it didn’t happen until halfway through,” Maludzinski said...
...Think of it as not quite a revolution but more than mere discontent. The dictionary describes it as "a condition of revolt against a recognized government that does not reach the proportions of an organized revolutionary government." Yep, a war that is not a real war, a halfway, inconclusive revolt without end, a battle of attrition that polarizes as it goes essentially nowhere...
...even halfway through his presidency, Bush says, he already sees his historic gamble paying off. He watched in satisfaction the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "I'm not suggesting you're looking at the final chapter in Afghanistan, but the elections were amazing. And if you go back and look at the prognosis about Afghanistan--whether it be the decision [for the U.S. to invade] in the first place, the 'quagmire,' whether or not the people can even vote--it's a remarkable experience." Bush views his decision to press for the transformation of Afghanistan and then Iraq...
...small wires attached to sensors all over my head and face and even legs. The staff trained a video camera on me and fitted me with a brace to measure my chest movement. Then I was told to relax and fall asleep. Yeah, right. Eventually I did. And then halfway through the night, a nurse came in and put a special mask on my face. It looks like a respirator, which is what it is. The CPAP (an acronym for continuous positive airway pressure) machine is designed to blow air at a steady pressure into your airways to keep...
Summarizing the film’s plot is a problematic endeavor, as Almodovar throws a heavy curveball at the audience halfway through the film that sends it in a completely different direction. While at first, Bad Education is a disturbing examination of Franco-era religious education—weaving between flashbacks of the child Ignacio dealing with a rapist priest and his adult, drag queen incarnation (Gael Garcia Bernal)—it abruptly becomes a noirish melodrama after a left-field revelation involving Ignacio and his suspect motivations...