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...last 500, we didn’t quit,” Adomanis said. “That’s always the danger when you get up in a situation like that and you’re ahead of a crew…. You let them stick around, and you let them make it close again...
...Cannes regular described Oldboy as a Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers - and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of the genre...
...treadmill while therapists moved his legs through a walking gait. The therapy, known as locomotor training, was said to take advantage of the fact that the spinal cord is hardwired with a sort of backup program for walking, one that can take over when signals from the brain quit...
Universities are hierarchical places, tolerant of eccentricity, protective of privacy but alert to risk. Giovanni wrote a letter to department head Roy, in part because she wanted to create a record that could lead to removing Cho from her class. Giovanni said she was prepared to quit over the issue. Roy, for her part, saw the anger as well. "He seemed so sad inside," she said, and she shared her concerns with campus police and counselors. They told her that unless the threats were explicit, there was little they could do. So Roy took him on as a private student...
...later quit the Army and was granted a temporary pension. When it ran out he got a job as an apprentice carpenter. Friends, who claim Gregg had post-traumatic stress disorder, say having to work worsened his fragile mental state. They learned only after his death that the military superannuation fund had classified Gregg as unable to work and a suicide risk...