Word: upset
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...Sept. 11, 2001, of course, could not come out; they crashed and died, along with the hijackers, in a field near Shanksville, Pa. But there are many Americans for whom the dark place of a movie auditorium is a last refuge from reality. The trailer for United 93 has upset viewers with its gritty evocation of that day, especially a shot of the plane hitting the second tower of the World Trade Center. Audiences who wouldn't flinch at slasher movies and serial-killer thrillers have shouted back at the previews. A multiplex in Manhattan yanked the trailer after complaints...
...Authority policemen trapped beneath the towers' charnel rubble, follows in August. James Vanderbilt's screenplay of Against All Enemies, Clarke's contentious memoir of his career tracking terrorists, which begins with frenetic scenes in the White House on 9/11, is floating around Hollywood. Paul Haggis, fresh from his Oscar upset with Crash, has expressed interest in directing...
...Hughes' old airplane hangar near Marina del Rey, Calif.--McLoughlin, who had 30 surgeries that left braces on his legs and an open wound on his left hip, stayed away from the 65-ft. mound of Styrofoam beams and cargo boxes meant to represent ground zero. "I hate getting upset," he says. As soot-covered extras in police and military uniforms milled around, Jimeno was reduced to tears by the sight of the too-lifelike rubble pile. "I survived for a reason," he says. "We, as a country, have a short attention span. We don't want people to forget...
...race today,” heavyweight senior Laura Martin said. “It gave us areas to improve upon, and there are a lot of races this season for us work on theses areas and get better.” Coming off last weekend’s upset victory over No. 4 Brown, the Black and White’s rankings, in addition to its expectations, were on the rise. Against the best team in the nation, however, its aspirations fell short. “Obviously going up against the no. 1 team we didn’t think...
...which “Harvard athletics are administered helps to avoid the entitlement issues seen at other schools” is an assumption at best. The campus-wide protests against the actions of a few of these athletes indicate that Duke students are just as angry and upset as Durham residents, and that no lacrosse player is receiving any special treatment, before or after this incident. I urge Hinshelwood and other Harvard students to talk to their friends at Duke, instead of reading sensationalized media coverage, in order to understand the real issues at hand that are affecting our campus...