Word: pilings
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...recent afternoon, Relentless Aaron parks his white SUV near Rockefeller Center in New York City and begins digging through a pile of books in the van. A giant portrait of him covers the side of the SUV along with the tagline AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, PRODUCER. In the late 1990s, Relentless, as he likes to be called, was jailed for passing bad checks. He turned to writing for therapy, and when he was sprung, restructured himself into a one-man publishing house. Now, with a Bluetooth hands-free in his ear and a stack of books in hand, he prowls tourist-filled...
...being cautious,” Dawson said of coming out of the game after a big hit. He stayed down on the field for a few minutes before jogging off under his own power. Seven plays later, he scored the last of his three touchdowns, an easy over-the-pile dive thanks to good blocking up front...
...Torture 2006.” Some wore black bags over their heads. Micheal Jones, a staff member of the HLS Human Rights Program, read a eulogy that began “today we mourn the death of a living document” as students dropped daisies on a pile of dirt below a cardboard headstone that read “RIP the Constitution.” The mock funeral took place after an open-mic forum in which speakers expressed their views on U.S. treatment of detainees, and their opposition to or support for the Guantanamo bill. The legislation resulted...
...Similar observations pile up - about the links between shopping and boredom, shopping and politics (the talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where...
...Hollywood’s political thrillers. The horrors of Amin’s regime are suggested more than seen, nearly excusing Garrigan’s blindness to them. The extent of Amin’s crimes is not revealed until late in the game, when gruesome images begin to pile up around the hapless doctor. The film is brought to life by expert camerawork and Alex Heffes’ striking music. Upon Garrigan’s arrival, authentic African music from the 1970s captures the exotic flair of the new country. But as the story unfolds, darker orchestral music...