Word: tells
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...movie with all these gruesome elements could easily be sensational. Maybe it should be. Maybe the telling should have a little flair, and a headlong rush toward dreadful truths. But that's not Eastwood's way. He just wants to tell the story, in uninflected, police-procedural fashion; the movie is like a flatfoot following a suspicious trail with no special intuition but an admirable doggedness. It doesn't hurtle, it ambles. You will look elsewhere (on the Internet) for documentation about the Wineville Chicken Coop matter, and the criminality of then-Mayor George Cryer as a pawn...
...also said that just because the issue of gay marriage is receiving the most media attention, it is still critical to realize how much gay rights need to advance. He pointed to the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy,” as well as the current absence of federal anti-discrimination employment and hate crimes laws as areas that still have a long way to go. —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...Jerry’s Manager Joe B. Magnant said it was too early to tell how the new store’s arrival would impact business, but that he was optimistic about the effects of competition...
...convention (the Republicans, by contrast, only cut their delegate counts in half). Democratic rivals Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton also signed pledges not to campaign in Florida until after its primary. But once Clinton's 17-point victory was announced that night, she immediately appeared in Ft. Lauderdale to tell voters she would fight to get Florida's delegates seated...
...David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson cope with middle age in their X Files movie later this summer. They may suffer from the occasional creaking joints of Crystal Skull. (And, truth to tell, there was more applause here at the beginning of the screening than at the end.) But they'd be hard-pressed to inhabit the sleek, satisfying adventure that three septuagenarians and their pals dreamed up here. There's a moment in the film where Mutt sees Indy negotiate some really cool bit of action, and the kid can't help mouth a "Wow." That's the right response...