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Last summer, there were also a couple of high-profile accidents that prompted concern among city officials. In one incident, 11 women crashed their beer bike into a viaduct, throwing several of them to the pavement. One was hospitalized with a concussion, another broke several ribs and a third lost the tip of a finger. "It's an uncontrolled projectile," says Karin Wolfs, an Amsterdam resident who broke a finger when a beer bike hit her motorcycle in June and sent her flying. "Who came up with the idea to drink beer while driving on public roads?" (See pictures...
...Vinci Code.” In his capable hands, the confrontation between Frost and Nixon is choreographed not like an interview but as an almost medieval clash of titans.Instead of the ominous pounding of armored feet on earth, we witness the purposeful pacing of black shoes on pavement. In place of dark steeds carrying villains, we have the jet-black limousines of the presidential motorcade. The generals in this war of words are researchers for Frost and staffers, headed Kevin Bacon as Jack Brennan, for Nixon.At the same time, true to its original stage play format, “Frost/Nixon...
...well beyond its previously simplistic songwriting by incorporating new influences and song structures. Closer “All Your Kayfabe Friends” and the title track both twist in myriad directions, always threatening to dissolve into chaos while just clinging to some semblance of structure. The influence of Pavement on the band is clearer than ever on the beautiful lo-fi ballad “Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time.” (It even has two parts!) Some of the experiments toward the end of the album fall a bit flat, giving the impression that Los Campesinos! are trying...
...workers the company had already laid off this year. Many of the newly axed at Citi and elsewhere have left behind cushy paychecks that covered their jumbo mortgages and kids' tuition bills. That ominous sound you hear? It's all those $200 pairs of shoes pounding the pavement...
...good ideas, might help swing a few votes over to their side. The presidential campaigns readying for this week’s vote would do well to remember that, group endorsements and professional-grade websites aside, all politics are personal, and nothing works better than pounding the pavement...