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...telling him that the project would move forward. Martinez claims "there was never a deal," but a week after he came out in favor of the now dormant fast-track bill, the Federal Highway Administration green-lighted the 4.5-mile project. At $311 million a mile, the freeway would slice through historic areas of South Pasadena and the largely Latino community of El Sereno, displacing 1,000 homes. Moreover, just as the highway suddenly acquired Clinton's backing, the Administration was pulling the plug on Los Angeles' subway funding...
From the students' and their lawyer's perspective, the suggestion was clear: Giles and Clark had at some point been imprisoned, when in fact, all they were guilty of was having a slice of pizza at Tommy's. The rest was superimposed by Crimson editors...
Step back: Jackie Brown is fundamentally a boring movie, which has to be bought into to be enjoyed or believed. The devices that worked in the past are now really straining under the pop culture pressure and expectations: the tangled slice-of-underworld-life plots, time sequence double-takes, vintage insta-cool sound track, and all the rest are present--but sloppy and unsatisfying. Fundamentally, Tarantino has failed to make things click; the elements fizzling in a way reminiscent of the almost-but-not-quite of Mike Leigh's Career Girls...
...really true that most people have a deeper, better side than what we usually see? It's tough to prove. But as a slice of evidence, consider the "blocking" process, in which first-years select the people with whom they expect to live for the next three years. Despite the College's efforts to create complimentary rooming groups, countless uncontrollable factors make rooming placement for first-years more or less arbitrary. As a result of this randomness, one might expect a mass exodus from these contrived rooming groups by sophomore year as students chose to live with people who shared...
...blast came from a precarious angle deep in the right corner and Adams appeared to find the only slice of daylight for his second tally of the young 1997-98 season...