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...Which is why many a jaw dropped when Brown declared on Oct. 6 that there would not be an election this year or even in 2008. The Prime Ditherer said he wanted to "get on with the business of change in this country." But in the days leading up to his surprise announcement, surveys had hinted that voters might indeed want change - from Labour to its closest rival, the Conservative Party. And although most pundits believe Labour would have won a majority, the fear of losing made Brown blink. Now his party is bracing for a backlash...
Which is why many a jaw dropped when Brown declared on Oct. 6 that there would not be an election this year or even in 2008. The Prime Ditherer said he wanted to "get on with the business of change in this country." But in the days leading up to his surprise announcement, surveys had hinted that voters might indeed want change--from Labour to its closest rival, the Conservative Party. And although most pundits believe Labour would have won a majority, the fear of losing made Brown blink. Now his party is bracing for a backlash...
...clearly spent most of the less than $20 million budget on giving the actors plenty of time to perfect their swing rather than on effects or fancy camera shots. Casey indeed nails it as the punk who's always having to punch above his weight, and there's a jaw-dropping performance from the not- well-known Amy Ryan as possibly the coarsest woman on the Eastern seaboard...
...maybe it only seemed like we did. It could have merely been a trick of the pen, but his newest book, “Peeling the Onion,” certainly made me feel as if we had switched bodies and situations for a moment. Perhaps it was because jaw surgery had left me incapable of intermaxillary motion, unable to chew and unable to eat real food, that the younger Grass resonated so powerfully with me. There was a confluence between my real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp...
...envelope rode shotgun beside me for several miles until I opened it at a red light, using a tire-pressure gauge from the glove box, at which time my jaw, like my mailbox door, fell open in astonishment...