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...This war has so many strands and there are so many things going on at once, it defies more linear mediums like print and television. The web is infinite in its depth and its breadth. You can find whatever strand you're looking for when you need it. You don't have to page through a paper, or channel surf hoping that you'll find that piece on Taliban moderates...
...It’s hard to say sometimes why the distinction is even there,” she said, brushing a strand of long, brown hair behind her ear. “A lot of extension school students participate in the same activities as the college students and even take essentially the same classes. They have friends at the college. You begin to ask yourself where the distinction lies. Is it in the application to college? We can’t deny it’s there, but the more time you spend at the extension school, it just becomes...
...found a strand of Jimmy Hoffa's hair...
Which other artists did he resemble? Not many, it turns out. Miro, in brief flashes. You could think of Westermann's strand of buckeye Surrealism and make him out to be a wood-butchering cousin of Joseph Cornell's, except that he didn't have Cornell's haunted preciousness, his extended nostalgia for a dream Europe. While Cornell was fantasizing about long-dead French courtesans like Cleo de Merode and building mossy palaces for paper owls, Westermann was chopping dovetails, perfect ones at that, and constructing scary, haunting emblems of death, loss and love...
...acting as a means of establishing personalities. In addition, the script offers plenty of promises with no payoffs. A romantic subplot involving Tanto and a female reporter leads absolutely nowhere, and could easily have been excised without affecting the movie in the slightest. Ditto regarding a plot strand concerning Tanto’s ex-wife. And the character of Sophia, so integral to the first half of the movie, becomes nearly invisible and irrelevant for the remainder of the running time. Interestingly, these quibbles all involve the women of the movie, making a statement that racing is a man?...