Word: heaps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...novel about $2 million in missing drug loot. For most of its 122-minute running time, this is a gnarly action movie, a duel between a kind-of-good guy (Josh Brolin) who finds the stash, and an implacable monster (Javier Bardem) who's pursuing him and leaving a heap of corpses along the way. Toward the end, when an aged, seen-it-all sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) takes center screen, the film runs itself off the rails-willfully refusing to come to the climactic showdown the viewer demands. But mostly it's a tense, fatal game of Texas Hold...
...back a safe distance. Slowly, the winch on the back of a recovery truck started hauling in the stricken vehicle. The cables groaned and creaked and the pins started to pull out of the earth, but after 20 minutes the truck lurched from the ditch and collapsed in a heap on the road...
...chose mostly B’s, your study style is...“Dining Hall Ditz.” You sit in the dining hall amidst a growing heap of half-eaten bagels and half-finished cups of coffee, and you spend more time complaining about how much you work you have than actually doing it. The thing is, I am sitting next to you. And it is annoying. So shut...
...first sign that we are entering a dead zone is the carcass of a camel, gathering flies and red dust. Since camels can go for three weeks without water, according to local farmers, the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones is an ominous sight. We enter a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of offering the usual smiles and waves, the children duck away. The reason for the villagers' fear becomes evident a few minutes later: nine turbaned men on horseback, members of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, appear with rifles over their shoulders. We are gone...
...MSNBC are airing interviews with professional psychiatrists who prattle on about “alienation.” As if alienation could explain why a man felt licensed to execute 33 innocent people on a foggy April morning, killing not only his ex-girlfriend but an indiscriminate heap of young students and professors...