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...make sure Floridians can remain in their houses," the governor's spokesman, Sterling Ivey, told=2 0TIME. "He's talking about Floridians who are working and trying to make ends meet every day. Not those who bought five homes during the housing bubble." (Read Will E-Retailers Have a Letdown...
...wedding as I am, because he's 9,000 miles away in Vietnam. After the big to-do, which we spent a year planning long-distance, he's back living and working in Saigon and I'm back in Manhattan - living with my grandmother. Talk about a letdown...
...Petit and his pals, what stills and stock footage as exist and a lot of recreations, he makes something reasonably suspenseful out of the logistics of this not-so-merry band gathering their equipment, rehearsing Petit's act and sneaking into the WTC. But the tightrope walk is a letdown; the conspirator who had a movie camera up there on the roof forgot to turn it on. So the big climax - man on very high wire (or should we say dead man walking?) - is pretty thin stuff. This visual paucity reinforces the feeling that we're not looking...
...Sixth Sense (1999) was a triumph of O. Henry-suspense and also an essay on the solitude of grief. Unbreakable (2000), a comic-book superhero battle told at an art-film tempo, was nearly as good and had another terrific, weighed-down performance by Willis. Signs (2002) was a letdown on the alien-invasion front, but it had Mel Gibson playing his own form of domestic desolation. The Village (2004), a sort of Amish retelling of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, was the first of his films to test - and break - the viewer's patience. And The Lady...
...season is certainly not over and the potential for redemption on the national stage is exciting and the team is enjoying the prospect of success and revenge,” second-varsity bow-seat Breffny Morgan said. The unexpected letdown at Sprints came after strong dual racing results. Finishing off its season with a 5-1 dual racing record, Harvard posted its only loss in its first cup race of the season against Brown. Though the Crimson displayed greater depth by taking four of the five races against the Bears, the varsity eight’s 5.1-second loss forced...