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...until all citizens begin to impress upon the candidates the dire urgency with which so many issues today need to be truthfully acknowledged and resolved, the candidates will continue to shy away from straight-talking, and go on seeking political success through equivocation and wordplay. If a fire is not lit beneath them, they will have no incentive to move to a higher political ground...
...nauseous, hallucinated pipe dream. A car chase filmed mostly from within a pursued car feels suffocating because of Gray’s decision to use only sounds that the character are hearing and no soundtrack. But his treatment of the political nature of his story fails to impress. When the mob attacks Joseph at his home, Bobby goes behind his father’s back and spontaneously volunteers for an undercover assignment, eventually becoming a cop himself. Bobby’s rise to arms implies that the ordinary citizen must take up arms against a common foe, but Gray never...
...spokesman for the Athletics Department, Kurt K. Svoboda, said that the department is attempting to “impress upon the student-athletes that we don’t want to take away, but rather put onto the table, alternative models that could better meet their needs and interests...
...While associate professor status certainly bodes well for job prospects elsewhere, the irony of being a junior professor here is that experience teaching at Harvard doesn’t impress anyone within its own gates...
...students must deal with the level of abuse that chefs often endure from their superiors. “Have you ever seen ‘Hell’s Kitchen’?” asks Pavloff, referring to the reality TV show in which contestants try to impress the profane Chef Ramsay with their culinary prowess. According to Pavloff, Ramsay is not an anomaly. But Ramsays and their ilk did not deter Paur from making the most of her apprenticeship. In fact, she found that cooking gave her a boost in confidence. “I realized that...