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...Well, here is the real stuff. Not a neo-noir homage, but the genuine india-ink original, "Nightmare Alley" combines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, "Freaks" with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel. As adapted by Spain, "Nightmare" pulls you into a secret world, with its own colorful language. "You can go back to carny and find another kootch show. But I want to have big dough," is a typical line, delivered when Molly hesitates on trying out the spiritualist "dodge." Throughout the book you get a privileged inside look at the tricks...
...They are simply part of SPG’s relentless public relations campaign feeding trumped-up charges of illegality to credulous journalists to pressure Taubman Centers’ directors into accepting a tender offer that they believe, in their good faith judgment, is inadequately priced and opportunistic,” TCI wrote in its brief...
Driving this relentless self-criticism is a vague and somewhat variable notion of the so-called mythical “other schools” against which we measure the merits of our own social life. The “other schools” are essentially a composite of everything which we believe Harvard lacks or, quite simply, the ideal party school...
...perfect partier. Yet, even if the average Harvard man or woman is not meant to party like they mean it every night, I did note certain aspects of FSU campus life that seemed to inspire in me a will to party on even through the fog of my relentless inebriation...
...reenergize the movement. The time to act is now. Roe v. Wade has protected our right to privacy and freedom from government intrusion in personal decisions for 30 years. Reproductive health and childbearing choices are among the most personal decisions a woman can make. Yet today, we face a relentless, targeted attempt by anti-choice forces to deny women true equality. Legal abortion hangs by a slim margin of five to four in the Supreme Court. The probable retirement of two justices could allow an anti-choice president to pack the court with anti-choice judges. So this year, while...