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...lonely, struggling actress-in-the-big-city, Reese Holdin (Zooey Deschanel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) returns after many years to her suburban childhood home and estranged father, Don (Ed Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock...

Author: By David F. Hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Review: Winter Passing | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh concert. "I don't think he's been listening to this one," he added, tearing into a ripsaw version of Johnny 99, about an unemployed factory worker who shoots a hotel night clerk: "Now judge I got debts no honest man could pay/ The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they/ was takin' my house away/ Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man/ But it was more 'n all this that put the gun in/ my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 'Round the World, a Boss Boom | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: A Bold Departure | 10/2/1982 | See Source »

...coach and his equine van can be found these days at rally sites. A ruddy Oklahoman, watering his bronco at the Minnehaha Roadeo, articulated one insoluble problem of motorized life. "The trouble," he said somberly, patting his steed, "is they ain't yet developed a vehikkle with holdin' tanks for hosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Dakota: The Motor Homers Gather | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Better let them die in the desert drinkin sand Or holdin onto water and shippin into death Then they come back and see they sufferin for vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: REVOLUTIONARY OR VICTIM | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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