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...Rififi, in which four men break into a jewelry store through the ceiling, codified the caper plot: it shows how they plan to do it, then shows how they do it, then shows how they get caught. Except for the gimmick of the silent half-hour, and broad comic turns from a few supporting players, the film plays the material straight. Epiphanies emerge naturally, like the moments when the gang, in the apartment above the shop, chisels a hole in the floor, and we get our first, eerily surreal view of the jewelry premises, as an umbrella is lowered through...
...just needed something to happen and the bats were silent,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “We’ve had an outage offensively...
...Catholic church seeks to modernize standards of morality, but it is an offending institution that fails to modernize its own house: it continues to ban women from the priesthood. The Vatican has cast a moral dilemma to today's faithful. When we are silent about the church's discrimination against women, are we complicit in a new sin? Judy Alves, FORT MYERS...
...industrial projects. But local officials often ignored the stop signs. More factories meant more local jobs and more growth, which made them look good in the eyes of their political superiors. Not only that, local officials, who can seize land and issue permits for new projects, were often silent partners in new manufacturing ventures. Too many factories got built as a result...
...mentality is more pronounced now than it was when I started graduate school, and I think that’s unfortunate,” Walt said. “If we spend all this time learning how international politics supposedly works and learning about these issues and then remain silent...when the issues of the day are issues that we are supposedly expert on, it’s both regrettable and irresponsible...