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...Winklers in this film are basically decent people. When they make their money, it really doesn't change them. They are who they are and it comes out with less inhibition. They don't feel the need to circumscribe themselves or censor themselves. At the end, the comic thrust of the story dictates that they go back to where they started - that's all I cared about. But it would never be that the Winklers make their money and then Frenchy turns into a louse - as my wife, she was always nice, but she has her weakness...
...parents was written. And one need only survey the delightful absurdity of letters included in the Collected Works of men worthy of such collections to recognize what we're missing. Take, for instance, a short letter from the Liberty Fund edition of the correspondence of Adam Smith. The main thrust of the letter from an 18-year-old Smith to his mother becomes apparent in its second and final paragraph: "In my Last Letter I desir'd you to send some Stocking's, the sooner you send 'em the better...
...spacecraft that will cruise at 100 miles a second. At that speed you will get to Mars in 10 days, to Pluto in 16 months. We can imagine a spacecraft carrying a big area of thin film to collect solar energy, with an ion-jet engine to produce thrust powerful enough to boost a spacecraft to a speed of 100 miles a second. It is also possible to build a nuclear-powered jet to do the same job, if the political objections to nuclear spacecraft can be overcome. The quantity of energy available from sunlight or from a nuclear reactor...
...then it happened: Crowley spotted Roger Ebert. "You're going to show it to me right now?" Ebert, still in his coat, asked as two of the aliens thrust speakers on either side of his face. They started the trailer, but Ebert was far more concerned with the dwindling battery power of the digital camera he was using to record this spectacle for his own website. Finally, mercifully, the trailer ended. Ebert congratulated the happy aliens, who spent the next 15 minutes beaming. "This is a new high," Ebert said under his breath as he walked away...
...These players were thrust straight into the fire this season, and performed admirably, helping the Crimson overcome preseason expectations to finish in a tie with Penn for second place in the Ivy League...