Word: slices
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...Believe offers some good ones, though of an old-fashioned variety. The chases aren't Batmobile-vs.-Joker-truck, they either involve a snowplow or are on foot. And the shock scenes are closer to the murky threat of Val Lewton's '40s horror movies than to the slice-and-dice explicitness of the Saw and Hostel slasher series. Early on, a young woman takes a dip in a public pool, then gets out. Submerged in the pool is a man with a predatory smile. As the camera moves in on him, an air bubble escapes. Nice frisson. And there...
...families who are trying to work through the mom or dad being gone for the third time, and it creates a huge burden on them at home. But when the troops are in the field, they are energized and they are working hard and they believe in the small slice of work that's been given them. And that, I think, at least gives me some hope that if we get our strategy right, we still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done, and that's our men and women in uniform...
...aircraft, and continued brokering the iron ore and other imports Japan needed to rebuild its ruined economy. As soon as the Korean War was over, he opened an office in Seoul, got to know the most important political and military leaders, put together reconstruction deals and took a big slice of the profit. For years after becoming an Israeli citizen in 1949, Eisenberg had a connection with the Jewish state that was mostly symbolic. But all the while he was living in Tokyo he played an active part in the Jewish Community of Japan and served several terms...
...many schools have worked hard to also include more low-calorie as well as organic and locally grown fare. Those options may disappear as schools struggle to lower their food bills. A serving of whole-grain bread, for instance, can cost as much as six cents more than a slice of white bread...
...dreams for the middle class is now a high-cost, low-wage state with Mickey Mouse schools and Goofy insurance rates, living beyond its environmental and economic means in harm's way. As peculiar as it sounds, this go-for-broke state of boundless possibilities - the land of Kimbo Slice, Miami Vice and Mar-a-Lago - might be leading America into a new era of limits...