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...staved in a motel in Westtield where overcome was either in a motorcycle gang, or they were homeless families who the state is paying to stay there," Bamberger says. "We spent a lot of time talk my to those people...
...scholarly corpus is not altogether compelling, and neither is the very problem: Where is this terrifying glut of TV ultra-violence? Senator Simon's galvanizing instance is a scene from a chain-saw murder movie he happened on seven years ago in an Illinois motel room; he doesn't know what it was or who was showing it, and he admits he hasn't watched a lot of TV since. It's true, during the ratings-sweeps periods, the networks each put on a few movies that include scenes of comparatively graphic violence. But those are anomalies, and as theatrical...
...That would be great, but you've really got to buy somebody who is there. You've got to deal through intermediaries you know. You're going through a whole ladder of contacts -- you end up sending a gold vase to a motel on the road to Mogadishu -- you never see the gold vase again -- you never get any intelligence. It requires a street wisdom suddenly in a particular area which is terribly hard for an intelligence service to produce when the President suddenly says, "Get me that damned warlord...
...narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...
...longest brothel in the world, a smorgasbord of lust. Travelers can pause at rest stops, munch on french fries and sausages and, for just $30, pick up a girl -- maybe one as young as 15 -- for half an hour in the bushes or in a truck cab or shabby motel. For the men, the encounters are alluring, if seedy, interludes at a bargain price...