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...their airline - another odd move, given that the industry thought Airbus planes were too expensive and burned too much fuel for a reasonably-priced carrier to make money. Then JetBlue became the first - and only - U.S. airline to give you your own TV set in coach (really, a screen in the seatback in front of you, but with 24 channels of real live satellite TV) and charge you nothing for the privilege of being an airborne coach potato...
...have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggas f--- it up!... Can't do nothing! Can't keep a disco open more than three weeks! Grand opening! Grand closing! Can't go to a movie the first week it comes out! Why? Cause niggas are shooting at the screen!... I love black people, but I hate niggas, brother. Oh, I hate niggas...
...grant access to the intelligence it gathered at the time, partly out of fear of exposing the extent to which Western governments did business with Milosevic to secure his participation in a peace deal. And, Scheffer says, "it might be harder to make the case because of the screen of Bosnian Serb leadership." In Kosovo, "it's a pretty clear case of superior criminal responsibility...
...Rodin's The Kiss gives the same effect as the camera turning around Jimmy Stewart's embrace of Novak later in the movie. The aerial shot of Cary Grant in the cornfield in North by Northwest - with a road cutting straight through the cornrows to the edge of the screen - draws on Léon Spilliaert's Le Paquebot ou L'Estran, a painting of alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretching to the tip of the canvas. Add some trees in front of the house in Edward Hopper's Lighthouse Hill, take away the lighthouse...
...Perhaps it is that complexity which has prevented Pinter from having the commercial big-screen hits enjoyed by other playwrights, such as David Mamet (The Untouchables) and Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons). Pinter's 22-strong movie output, however, is critically distinguished - particularly a three-film collaboration with director Joseph Losey (including the creepy Dirk Bogarde-James Fox classic The Servant), and his John Fowles adaptation, The French Lieutenant's Woman...