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...spite of the raw simplicity of the title, Kill Bill is without a doubt one of the most complex and interesting films Quentin Tarantino has ever made. Within the film, one can see hints of all of Tarantino’s influences and tastes, but all are wonderfully adapted to fit into the unique Tarantino vision. From one scene to the next, the film shifts seamlessly from style to style, varying between blaxploitation, spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong kung fu, Japanese samurai and anime. By ambitiously employing all of these disparate styles, constituting several departures from the standard of color live...
...tonight and face off against the moneyed establishment in the next round of the playoffs, the moaning establishment is already prepared for a long off-season to stew over their eventual loss. Even post-season perfection cannot cure the Curse of the Bambino, after all, and spite and resignation work wonders to dampen the thud of mediocrity...
...spite of Franken’s witty jabs at Harvard’s so-called prestige, he arrived in Cambridge last January eager to explain to 14 students in his hand-picked KSG study group that they were going to help research his next book, which would reveal hidden conservative biases in the media...
...rooms Gilley was playing, they were packed with mostly rambunctious cowpokes. Reckoning that the bar denizens wouldn't fight nearly as much if they could compete another way, Cryer rolled mechanical bulls into the establishment--in spite of Gilley's objections. The rest is movie history. Gilley burst onto the national stage with Urban Cowboy, a love story about an urban cowpoke and the girl who rides a mechanical bull better than he does. Set in Gilley's, the film featured the singer on the sound track and in the movie alongside stars John Travolta and Debra Winger...
...Even though silicone versions haven?t been widely available in the U.S. since 1992, saline implants have been used extensively and the market is booming: about 240,000 women had implants last year to enlarge their breasts, a sixfold increase over 1992. That?s in spite of the fact that women must be told before getting them that saline implants can rupture and deflate suddenly, requiring immediate surgery. When the FDA conducted its first safety review of saline implants in 2000, it ruled they could continue to be marketed "despite relatively high complications and failure rates...