Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that's the country's second largest county in a nutshell, and if you managed to get to the end of this piece, you should have no trouble getting to the small type at the end of the ballot, where the county races have hung out for years...
...talking, Mastrangelo bites down on the wet cigar he holds in his mouth. He doesn't want to hear anything about the way the campaign went earlier this fall. He wants to start all over, and hopes it isn't too late. He pats a young Harvard type on the back, "I'm really expecting a lot of work out of you in these next few days, Dave. Really, any papers you need, I'll write them for you myself...
...incarceration of Billy Hayes becomes an inspiring epic of one very ordinary man's struggle to endure and ultimately prevail which are at once unspeakable in their brutality and incomprehensible in their mindlessness. In the hands of Parker and screenwriter Oliver Stone, Billy Hayes is transformed into an Everyman-type hero coping with the erosion of his identity in a nether world of sadism, greed and madness. No emotion goes unexplored, no pain is spared, and in the end, no victory is denied. Therein lies the genius of Midnight Express, a Film so devastating in its momentary power...
...about Midnight Express that accounts for the film's magnetic pull on the viewer. The violence is graphic and uncompromising, mindful of no boundaries imposed by discretion or "good taste," whatever that might be. Brad Davis' performance as Billy reinforces this no-holds-barred quality, and in virtually any type of movie, the acting job he delivers might have served as an embarassing distraction. But Midnight Express was just the right film for a newcomer like Davis willing to throw himself into the lead role with precisely that lack of restraint. His grimaces, anguished pleas and explosions of rage...
...hopes to harness this type of willingness to help younger women at the start of their business careers. "Our primary function," Poor explains, "is to see that the women who come here like it and are successful, both while they're here and after they graduate...