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...V-shaped steel body directs an explosion's force up the sides and away from passengers
...relax yet, River City: the guardians of decency are warning about new trouble, with a capital T, which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content...
...committee unanimously voted to scrap the race-conscious assignment system because similar programs had come under constitutional attack in recent years, according to Charles V. Willie, a professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Education. The committee replaced it with a plan that focused on socioeconomic diversity...
...It’s true: the blues is not a form conducive to exaggerated structural shifts, revolutionary melodies, or stunning technical perfection; my jazz instructor loved to make fun of my penchant for blues-based pentatonic scales and predictable I-IV-V chord progressions. But this elegant simplicity and emotional purity is the very essence and charm of the genre and, I hope, its ticket back into the business. Just maybe not through “Black Snake Moan...
...setting that harkens back to the outdoor roots of the company. The production of “Much Ado About Nothing” that Lithgow so enjoyed took place in Harvard Yard. Despite Speedie’s ambitions for an alumni reunion production of “Henry V,” Speedie says he plans to take things one step at a time.“We’re going to have to restore the company’s name before we can credibly request a venue like Sanders or even the new theatre that?...