Word: meats
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...close, Rich, to get the truth," a photographer tells the correspondent in Salvador. "You get too close, you die." Sometimes Stone gets and stays too close. Much of Platoon is strong meat, indifferently prepared. His script is over-wrought?fine, the material virtually demands excess and excrescence?but it is also overwritten, with too much narration that spells out what has already been so eloquently shown. As a director, Stone does not yet have the craft to match or mediate his passion. His film works in spurts: a scene that sputters with bombast will be followed by some wrenching fire...
...Neil and his mother were taken in by kindly relatives, a situation Simon reversed in Brighton Beach, where he portrayed his family as the host rather than the guest. On other occasions Mamie took in boarders: her son particularly remembers two butchers who paid part of their rent in meat...
...Lavietes Pavilion are thus the final salvos of Cusworth’s career, which has spanned five seasons and more than eighty games, and which Cusworth hopes will turn into an opportunity to play basketball professionally. That Cusworth’s season is about to end abruptly, before the meat of the Ivy slate—the final 10 games of league play which decide who earns the automatic berth to the NCAA tournament—is especially painful for himself and Harvard given that the center finally seems to have come into his own as a force...
...though, Cameron has avoided making many explicit policy statements, relying instead on warm and fuzzy ideas like a belief in "social responsibility" that he says will empower business, individuals and local government. But in Britain's red-meat political and media landscape, warm and fuzzy is rarely enough. Popular attitudes to politicians are still set by the tabloids, which take no prisoners. And so far, the red tops aren't convinced. "I can't get to grips with Cameron, and I don't think the electorate can," says Trevor Kavanagh, the longtime political voice of the Sun. Here...
...tell me anybody else in the field who's representing that right now?" Sharpton asked. He praised Edwards for talking about poverty issues, but left out Obama. "Right now we're hearing a lot of media razzle-dazzle," Sharpton said. "I'm not hearing a lot of meat, or a lot of content...