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There is a very short payoff in the draft for the amount of work a player puts in. While Morris’ name will only light up the television screen for a few seconds, he has been preparing for the moment since the second after the Harvard-Yale game ended last November...
...suppressed, then geysering into an explosion of smashed crockery and punched-out supporting players. All the ingenuity goes into justifying sociopathic behavior--for example, how can Sandler beat the pacifism out of a Buddhist monk and keep the audience's sympathy? It's classically infantile comedy, ending in a payoff so corny it would have made Frank Capra wince. (This time Sandler has all of Yankee Stadium as his theater of catharsis, with Rudy Giuliani cheering...
...racist cops. This unexpected change-up highlights both Ollmann's admirable ambitions and his difficulties. The cliched depiction of the southern cops seems as equally prejudiced as the racism they are meant to represent. Still, Ollmann's desire to explore important subject and his ability to provide an emotional payoff with sympathetic characters put this work above the grade...
...Payoff Layoffs...
...Murdoch's programming in China "is the same sort of strategy that our team took in India," says Davis. And the payoff is potentially huge, given that the mainland's TV ad market was a hefty $2.4 billion last year. Yet the chances of China contributing to Star Group's bottom line any time soon seem faint. That's because China's authoritarian government, fearing that foreign-produced entertainment will usurp domestic competitors and that racy shows will corrupt the citizenry, severely limits the distribution of Western programming...