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...kinds of social and economic and technological factors then conspired to shred that tidy picture to the point that the frequency of family dining fell about a third over the next 30 years. With both parents working and the kids shuttling between sports practices or attached to their screens at home, finding a time for everyone to sit around the same table, eating the same food and listening to one another, became a quaint kind of luxury. Meanwhile, the message embedded in the microwave was that time spent standing in front of a stove was time wasted...
...computer contains nearly 40 lbs. of plastic, lead, aluminum and iron, along with small amounts of arsenic, mercury, zinc and gold, and environmentalists are worried that the metals will leach into soil and water. But without national standards, some recyclers play fast and loose with the term. Some just shred waste. Others ship it overseas to China, Vietnam or India...
...become dangerously boring. The likewise ponderous “Camera” lacks any verve or compelling guitar hooks, and, instead, meanders for over five minutes. And the derivative “Bullets” monotonously covers the same aesthetic territory as previous songs, but, without a shred of creativity or punch, simply repeats the chorus “you don’t need this disease” ad nauseum. Besides Joy Division, the other obvious comparison of Editors is to Interpol, both of whom sing dark and detached tales amidst reverb-loaded guitars and squeaky clean production...
...way—in graphic and brutal fashion. Extreme violence and moral simplicity is, of course, a hallmark of the action and crime genres. Nobody goes to see a movie like this expecting a deep dissection of the implications of violence on society, or even necessarily a shred of realism. It is, however, a reasonable expectation that if it’s not going to provide either of those things, it will at least be escapist fun. What “Running Scared” provides instead is a nonsensical plot, dialogue that consists mostly of variations on Paul Walker...
...over the Bulldogs, who entered the game 0-7 on the road this season. The Crimson showed every bit of the rustiness that has been characteristic of teams after the exams, compiling 20 turnovers and missing 11 free throws in a back-and-forth battle with Yale for any shred of offensive continuity. “I thought [the game] was ugly, awful,” Delaney-Smith said. “But Laura, I thought, carried us. She has shown a lot of senior leadership and poise and she decided that she was just going to carry...