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...their kids through college. L.A. cops, Aldrich said, are honest, crusading and sadistic: they get their charge from pulverizing the ones they tab as bad. Ludlow, who has a Patton-size flag outside his home and whom another cop calls "L.A.'s deadliest white boy," fits into this latter category. "We're the police," he tells a greener officer (Chris Evans) who partners with him. "We can do whatever the hell we want." And, later: "Truth doesn't matter, only how we write...
...paired up otherwise. “DreaMinimalist” (2008), for example, features a scene in which Conrad dons a dress, with a flower vase as a backdrop, while visiting the late filmmaker Jack Smith. The scene was based on an actual collaboration between Smith and Conrad when the latter was a young artist starting out in New York City.A self-confessed introvert who majored in mathematics as an undergraduate, Conrad explained that he wanted to emphasize his relationship with Smith, who helped draw out the filmmaker’s budding artistic vision. “I was coming...
...NATO is engaged in Afghanistan against forces that would ultimately threaten Russia's southern flank. Putin even allows NATO to use Russian territory for logistics, and approved its use of air bases in Central Asian countries. Still, President Bush failed to convince his Russian counterpart and friend that the latter's stringent anti-NATO rhetoric is counterproductive...
...explained the theory of his research with an analogy from his past: “If your bombers are being shot down, you can either develop higher flying bombers or you can knock out the anti-aircraft guns and use the old bombers.” Knowles preferred the latter...
...study compared two groups of 100 terminally-ill children—one was studied from 1990 to 1997 and another from 1997 to 2004—and found that parents in the latter group reported they felt more prepared for their child’s death and that their children suffered less...