Word: strays
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...regional operating companies, a.k.a. the Baby Bells, are no longer sharing their database of phone numbers with Ma Bell. The upshot is that AT&T has assembled replacement services consisting of one subcontractor, Excell Agent Services in Phoenix, Ariz.; two of its own regional centers; and a few stray agreements with Baby Bells. Thus when you're in, say, Oregon calling to find a Florida number, your long-distance information operator is now likely to be in Phoenix; Scranton, Pa.; or Augusta, Ga. (MCI and Sprint still have agreements with the Bells--but that could change too once they start...
...somehow that instinct to crouch down in the face of change runs right into the urge to sit up straight and ride it out. The inverse of the maxim that hard times pull communities together is that good times let people stray, start their own business, move to a new town not because their job requires it but for a better life, a better school, a better view of the mountains. Our shared national luxury is elbow room, the blessing of wealth and space that allows congregations to split off and build huge, sprawling new churches along the highway, unaffiliated...
...father. Most of it, though, surely arises from the desire to encourage an alternative cinema of sobriety and humanity in the midst of summer's heavily mechanized silly season. The key moment in writer-director Victor Nunez's film comes when Ulee could pick up a stray gun and blast a pair of bad guys away. He doesn't, and you just know that this austere refusal of the conventionally melodramatic will eventually win Ulee's Gold an Independent Spirit Award...
...father. Most of it, though, surely arises from the desire to encourage an alternative cinema of sobriety and humanity in the midst of summer?s heavily mechanized silly season." The key moment in writer-director Victor Nunez's film comes when Ulee could pick up a stray gun and blast a pair of bad guys away. He doesn?t, and you just know that this austere refusal of the conventionally melodramatic will eventually win 'Ulee's Gold' an Independent Spirit Award. "We, meantime, are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some...
...father. Most of it, though, surely arises from the desire to encourage an alternative cinema of sobriety and humanity in the midst of summer?s heavily mechanized silly season." The key moment in writer-director Victor Nunez's film comes when Ulee could pick up a stray gun and blast a pair of bad guys away. He doesn?t, and you just know that this austere refusal of the conventionally melodramatic will eventually win 'Ulee's Gold' an Independent Spirit Award. "We, meantime, are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some...