Word: spate
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...have to see one of the remaining pictures at the Brattle, see “High and Low.” It’s more accessible than other Kurosawa pictures and discusses the human capacity for compassion in terms that will resonate with modern audiences.After releasing a spate of mostly excellent samurai flicks starring fearless Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa snuck in “High and Low,” a challenging work that raised questions of morality through the stark, visceral imagism of his earlier works “Rashomon” and “Ikiru...
...worth shouting. The opening of the record’s first track, “Lift Ya Skirt,” is reminiscent of ODB’s terrifying debut on 1993’s “Enter the Wu-Tang.” After a spate of expletives and threats, Ol’ Dirty tells us that he’s the same as ever: he boasts that “it’s the old Dirt McGirt / live and uncut,” and for a moment, it’s convincing. The pastiche of banged...
...used to be the mayor of Chattanooga. Ford was considered an underdog, both because a Democrat hasn't won a Senate race in the state since Al Gore in 1990 and because of the political baggage from his family, which is active in state politics but known for a spate of corruption scandals. His father, former Congressman Harold Ford, Sr., was charged with federal bank fraud and acquitted in 1993 and his uncle, a former state Senator, was indicted for bribery earlier this year...
...After a bruising final spate of campaigning that included half a dozen debates, a major push by both parties to court women and rural voters, and ads by Michael J. Fox for McCaskill and a host of celebrities for Talent, the Missouri Senate race remains deadlocked. It has now become a test of the two parties Get Out The Vote operations, with the G.O.P. pouring volunteers into neighborhoods and drawing on the party's vaunted voter list, while the Dems scramble to mobilize urban voters in St. Louis and Kansas City. Democrats have to hope that two ballot initiatives...
This decidedly indecorous behavior comes on the heels of a spate of off-the-field offenses by fist-first football players at Harvard and across the Ancient Eight, most recently at Yale...