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...renovations have stalled. He has fallen behind on the yard work and hasn't gotten around to hanging his father's portrait - a striking shot of a muscular man in dark briefs. Jerome Zachery wrestled professionally in the 1950s before settling into family life. The champ used to tell his sons, "As long as you have a place to keep the dew off your head, you're O.K." Facing foreclosure, Joseph Zachery worries about pride more than shelter, though. He has rented a storage unit so that his belongings will never be dragged to the curb. "If I have...
...just been charged with assaulting three cops. The lawyers will share scenes with Madea only twice thereafter; otherwise, their stories are completely unrelated, resulting in two distinct works of inconsistent quality.The inferiority of the primary plot is due more to its execution than the narrative it attempts to tell. The tension between the two parts of Joshua’s life—his childhood in the slums and his later success as a lawyer—could set the stage for a movie on its own, as could his deteriorating relationship with his much-wealthier fiancé Linda...
...strong enough to merit being called “mindfuck.” Sincerity, however, could not salvage the book. Despite its interesting particularities, the greatest weaknesses of “Mindfucking” lie in its lack of depth: McGinn is certainly not the first to tell his readers about the “phenomenon” of mental manipulation, and he doesn’t treat the subject with enough intellectual gravity to give a new twist on the topic...
...It’s up to [Harvard] to either agree to do it, or to go back to [the Mayor] and tell him if they need more time for some issues,” Berkeley said. Nevertheless, he said he appreciated the new-found tone of Menino’s letter...
...worked at Everything’s Jake since July of last year, also attributed the store’s waning sales to the recession. “People just aren’t buying and consumer confidence is down, although you don’t need me to tell you any of this,” Orazine said. According to Orazine, daily revenue used to average around two or three thousand a day in the shop’s earlier months. “Compared with a couple of years ago, we’d be lucky if we could...