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...quickly between shots, leaving some scenes choppy and the viewer dizzy. The beginning set-up features Beyoncé lying suggestively in a pool, and doesn’t compliment the tempo of the song. Nor is it ever clear why Beyoncé would want to climb into the trunk of a Rolls Royce, as she does for a few awkward moments. Nevertheless, “Upgrade U,” with its infectious sound and eye-catching imagery, will satisfy fans and should convince most viewers to let Beyoncé upgrade them...
...beginning of market competition. The Benson Space Co. is developing the Dream Chaser space taxi--a "cute little sports-car-like spaceship" that seats six and has rocket motors in the trunk. It harks back to a design developed by the Soviets for space-shuttle runs but adds an innovation: the same hybrid motor used by SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004--laughing gas shot through rubber. In comparison, the spaceship being developed in great secrecy by Bezos' Blue Origin looks like a lopped-off nose cone. The three-seater, fueled by hydrogen peroxide (yup, the common household...
...presumably Munro herself, living out fictionalized situations) is such a character, Munro is at her strongest when she recalls her childhood and adolescence. The lively writing and intricately detailed descriptions of everything from the ramshackle farm where her father raised foxes for fur to the contents of the wedding trunk that her poor but meticulous family put together for her are entirely engrossing. The emotional life of the narrator is also wonderfully well developed. When she goes to work as a maid for an affluent family at their summer home, we feel her loneliness and awkwardness in the presence...
...mailing a package just like The Unibomber [sic] use to do simple mail out a package and when the suspecting recipient opens it they don't even know what hit them, or maybe like Salvo [sic] did in the D.C. sniper case just a small hole in the trunk of the car and BANG...
...engineered the hijacking of a Lufthansa plane. When German special forces killed three of the four hijackers and rescued the hostages in Mogadishu, Somalia, Baader and two others killed themselves in their cells; within two days of the attack at Mogadishu, investigators found Schleyer's body stuffed in the trunk of a car in France...