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...news about RockNRolla is that it more or less erases the tainted memories of Swept Away, the awful movie Ritchie made with Madonna, and the nearly incoherent Revolver, and marks Ritchie's return to the form of the 1998 Lock, Stock and its 2000 follow-up Snatch. The not-so-good news about his third excursion into the London underworld is that he's reusing the early films' milieu and style. It's an attractive template that allows for some vivid variations and lets good actors play it big and nasty, but there's no question that the form...
...these dramatized deadpan docufarces, with bad-taste maven John Waters hosting as the "Groom Reaper." The tacky milieu, high emoting and lowlife venality may trick you into thinking you're watching one of those good-bad John Waters movies. Alas, you're just watching John Waters watching a not-so-good TV show. Sorry...
...annuity you receive after signing the house over to a financial institution. This approach to cashing in on your house makes sense as a last resort. The good part is that the bank can't force you out even after paying the full purchase price. But the not-so-good part is that you could lose control of what may be your largest asset, including the ability to pass it on to your children. For all those reasons, "we don't consider the house an income source in our calculations," says Sophie Beckmann, a financial planner at A.G. Edwards...
...pass, Pelle one-timed it in, and the jubilant Harvard bench emptied to mob Pelle and celebrate the 5-4 OT win. And herein lies the beauty of sports. In under an hour, on a cold New England night, in a pair of mediocre venues cheering for one good and one not-so-good college team, you can experience certainty and shock, can feel bitterness and delight, can observe displays of breathtaking skill and woeful ineptitude, can run through a veritable gamut of emotions and emerge purified. In a matter of minutes, I witnessed both the joys of victory...
...years removed from an incredible NCAA Championship, one year after a heartbreaking tenth-place finish at NCAAs, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew was seemingly pulled in two directions all season. Inconsistency plagued the crew, as a couple good races would be followed by a couple not-so-good races...