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...akin to walking behind our metaphorical elephant in Herzog circus. All that is needed to pick up on the symbols is a rather large shovel. What Fitzcarraldo lacks is subtlety and grace. Herzog leaves little to the imagination, and the result is a film that numbs us by its stubborn unwieldiness...
...Stubborn to the point of being inane backers of the Garden State bill have produced a new justification for their scheme a minute of silence may quell the disorder that has recently plagued many classrooms. In other words. 60 seconds of practice each day will train youngsters to remain ungetie straight through gometry period and the 3:00 pm belt. If true, why not ban all noise until lunch time. Or forbid the pint-sized calteria muggers and pre-pubsecent drug pushers from even speaking while on school property. This ought to whip the little troublemakers into shape. Meanwhile religious...
...boost Iraqi casualty figures and, perhaps more important, to instill ferocity and brutality in the ill-trained guards for their larger mission. Most of them serve only a short time at the front before being shipped back to the cities to battle the regime's stubborn domestic opponents...
...Social Democrats' resurgence seemed less a reflection of voter sympathy for a move back to the left than an expression of public disenchantment with the austerity policies of outgoing Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin. During his five years in power, the stubborn sheep farmer juggled three governments in an unsuccessful bid to forge a unified coalition among Sweden's fractious non-Socialist parties. Confronted with an inflation rate of 8.5% and a budget deficit of $12.8 billion (about 12% of the country's gross national product, in contrast to the U.S. deficit of about...
Anticipating stubborn response from College officials, committee members discussed the possibility of forming an underground brigade of "Ivy Creepers," who would gather at night and furtively plant new shoots of Ivy each time Harvard scraped clean another wall...