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...history happened. There were bigger stars on the Colony's stage and screen, but Steamboat Willie got the press. Crowds created near mob scenes as they rushed to see this "riot of mirth." In truth, it was crude stuff. But Mickey turned a cow's tail into a hurdy-gurdy handle, and it mooed music as he cranked away. Another bovine's teeth became a xylophone on which he beat out a tune. In short, Willie had what its more pretentious competitors lacked--energy and freedom. And its creator was on his way to fame, riches and immortality. --By Richard...
Aside from occasional excesses (which are, perhaps, simply inherent in the genre of action film), what results from Friedkin’s attempt at violence-without-bullets is an amalgamation of Saving Private Ryan, The Fugitive and a 1980s slasher movie: historical context, Tommy Lee on the tail of the bad guy and blood and guts squirting all over the place...
...when God and Satan speculate like racing touts about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns and a tail, an absolutely malevolent personality, God's rival in the cosmos, condemned to lose the fight (eventually) but powerful in the world...
...willing as the next guy to debate whether it's smart to invest in foreign stocks--but not now. Time is wasting. A weakening dollar and an abundance of cheap foreign pickings have whipped up a tail wind that U.S. investors can't afford to ignore. Yes, you can argue that the diversification benefits of foreign investing aren't what they used to be now that the world's economies are so intertwined...
...when God and Satan speculate like racing touts about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns and a tail, an absolutely malevolent personality, God's rival in the cosmos, condemned to lose the fight (eventually) but powerful in the world...