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What loomed largest in the minds of the Netscapers, however, was something very real and implacable: the bone-crushing giant from the north that could jump in any time and snatch away the revolutionary business it had built from nothing. Microsoft was its name...
...with plot, but The Old Neighborhood has no forward propulsion at all. Bobby spends most of the time staring off into the distance, head cocked slightly, as if groping for memories, meaning, connection. So are we. Because the play, in its terse but meandering way, occasionally stumbles on a snatch of family observation to which we can all relate (Jolly complains that her parents never bought her skis), or wrestles with the intermittent big idea (Bobby's longing for his Jewish roots), some people may mistake this for profundity. But it's pretentious doodling...
...Lewis may be running a halfway house for hungry kids in one of the poorest and most wretched neighborhoods in America is shattered by the blare of an electronic siren. The girls know the drill: they file neatly out of the red brick firehouse while Lewis and his crew snatch up their coats and helmets. In a flash, all five firemen are aboard their truck and rocketing out of the station to handle one of the 70 emergency calls they receive each week at one of the busiest station houses in Chicago. The 17 fire fighters of Engine...
...which the mere expectation of sickness may cause the angst-ridden patient to hurtle towards death. Even though the articles start to resemble entries in a medical journal, compelling statistics--such as the 12 percent increase in "normal" U.S. suicide patterns following Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962--snatch the reader's attention whenever the discussion of endogenous opioids approaches the threshold of human tolerance...
According to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Sergeant Robert J. Kotowski, the suspect--who is not affiliated with Harvard--approached a couple sitting on a bench by the river and attempted to snatch the purse which was resting on the bench between the victims...