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...arms for their next meal; the bucolic vista of a Princeton street where people have hanged themselves from trees; the sight of a family man revving up his Jeep and driving into a tree; the report of a bus in a lake. But he didn't attach these potent vignettes to a story with any narrative or emotional plausibility. The movie keeps ignoring its internal logic. If the killer is borne by the wind, why don't people in the affected area just stay inside with the windows shut and wait it out, instead of traipsing across eastern Pennsylvania farmland...
...part because, unlike glass and plastic, organic waste will decompose once it's put in the ground. But that becomes a problem in municipal landfills. As buried food breaks down in these oxygen-free environments, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that has a warming effect 23 times as potent as carbon dioxide. Global methane emissions from garbage are estimated to be as high as 70 million metric tons a year. By recycling organic waste--composting it--methane emissions are eliminated...
...home, their fingers on the fast-forward and stop buttons, so he makes every element instantly understandable. That's why most movies seem as if they were made for the passengers of the Axiom. But WALL?E plays without safety nets or spoon-feeding; it reinvents the delicate, potent behavioral language of silent-film comedy, of the Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films...
...soon as the last punch of the evening's sparring is thrown, the area in front of the gym empties out. The bystanders start their motorcycles and head off to Uyo's bars to drink potent beer and palm-wine. Women with bundles balanced on their heads walk past the edge of the ring, paying no attention to the sweat-soaked men. The boxers mingle around the gym, discussing that evening's fights. They don't leave; they have no place else...
...else but 9-0 Yale—the then-No. 11 squad in the nation, which featured All-American and eventual Ivy League Player of the Year Mike McLeod and New England Coach of the Year Jack Siedlecki in addition to one of the most potent defenses in the league. The 124th edition of The Game, pegged as perhaps the best Game since the epic 29-29 tie in 1968, quickly turned sour for the outcoached Bulldogs, as the Crimson scored early and at will to break out to a 27-0 halftime lead and an eventual...