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Ward recognizes that most cyclists also disobey traffic rules. "A lot of them are just inviting accident. For the most part, they tend to run red lights and ride down one-way streets the wrong way," he says, adding that drivers' legitimate expectations for cyclists to "pull some ridiculous stunt" further compounds the problem. "They'll tend to either give you a wide berth, speed up past you or just honk their horns," he says...
...comedian went Caucasian in a four-minute film. For viewers who missed it, SNL Executive Producer Dick Ebersol explains, "He gets on a city bus, and there's one black man on it. The instant the black man gets off and it's just white people, they pull out music and cards and have parties." Murphy also performed in a sketch called "Milestones," depicting South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and Heisman Trophy Winner Doug Flutie. Presumably, Murphy always wanted to play the bishop, but then again . . . "They are 17 of the best dancers in the world." So says...
...arrhythmic, keeps the language lofted nicely in the thin air as Jones' husky voice snakes around the lyrics. But the record turns dark in mood, and heavy. This is not to say that it takes on real weight, however, only that it seems to be buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work up a fail-safe two-line recipe for romantic bliss ("Make him some catfish/ Fry it up in bed") has humor to spare and no further need to flash her credentials for high seriousness. The same notion remains: if the next...
...FACE IT: Pinter is hard to pull off. Not only do Pinter plays often seem ambiguous to even the most erudite audience, but his plays pose an even bigger challenge for the director and cast. Pinter's "Old Times" utilizes his notion of people's memory of the past, a hazy past to which we may make scattered visits, returning with fragments of truth and fantasy which both enlighten and obscure our perception. It takes talent to overcome Pinter's irresolute narrative. This "Old Times" production avoids the temptation to didactically force feed its "message" to the audience, but instead...
What the task force wants to do is pull up on the reins of a technology that saves lives and is on its way to saving more. The limiting of organ transplants to a small scale effort solves the problem of monetary drain on Medicaid. It does not, however, solve the overall problem. This ultimate resolution of expanding transplant availability, the only resolution that satisfies the strongest ethical implications of the problem, would be delayed, perhaps indefinitely, by the group's plan. What is missing is an assessment of what the constraining effects of the task force-advocated policy would...