Word: warms
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Transients often move in, steal the power, tear apart the walls and floorboards in search of valuable copper wires and piping and set fires to cook drugs or keep warm. The police struggle to keep the damage under control; but with no owner around to claim a trespass violation on a repossessed home, it's difficult for them to make arrests. All they can do is tell the squatters to leave, board up the house and ship off a note to the bank that now owns the property. "It's a victimless crime," says Bert Lippert, a bit sarcastically...
...While even the most inveterate atheist could no doubt appreciate the adhan for its cultural value—and the warm, oriental Eurus it breathed through the Yard, liberating, if even for only a moment, a campus oppressed by vestiges of a Western and patriarchal past...
...conditions. “We’re pretty used to it. he UMass game was a lot colder than this, just in terms of the unrelenting rain for the whole game,” Duboe said of the sub-freezing temperature. “It’s warm for us right now.”Ultimately, Tillman attributed the team’s success to solid preparation by the coaching staff—his assistant coaches, Anthony Kelly and Kevin Warne—combined with the young team’s energetic style of play...
...event may be the first parade organized and led by foreigners in the Chinese capital in at least 50 years. "The idea of the parade is to reflect the warm human ties between Ireland and China," said Wang Hong Bing, the Dongcheng District Director of the Ministry of Propaganda. What was the secret to winning state approval? Says Ambassador Kelleher, "A lot of hard work and a lot of assurances." Adds Minister Roach, "Ireland is a very, very small country. No one sees it as a threat. It doesn't have an agenda." And, of course, there had been something...
...neighborhoodsand ramshackle houses almostas well as striking footage of the wintryfields and lakes beneath the open skies ofrural America. The film’s visual appealis greatest during its most brutal scenes.Sequences of abuse contrast dramaticallywith interspersed shots of farmlandsunsets, which provide some of the film’sonly warm colors.The climax, in which James takesTara to her grandfather’s farm, marks theleast believable portion of the film. Tara’sgrandfather, played by Dennis Hopper(“Easy Rider”), is flat and underdevelopedas a character. Hopper succeeds inportraying the cruelty that caused hischildren...