Word: wrenching
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...federal court threw a last-minute wrench into Shannon Faulkner's plan to become the Citadel military college's first woman cadet. Faulkner was set to enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
...office and acted out her autobiography. "It was like watching a movie," says Humphreys. "She'd turn on the tape, and she was just gone." The experience gave both women a strenuous emotional workout. When Bolton brought in a photograph of Daddy, now dead, Humphreys felt her stomach wrench. Facing floods of tears without Kleenex, she ripped up a bed sheet...
...quiet of suburban Los Angeles, Moosa Hanoukai picked up a pipe wrench and bludgeoned his wife Manijeh to death. When the businessman did not contest the facts, prosecutors assumed they had an easy second-degree murder conviction. But Hanoukai's attorney James Blatt mounted this defense: his client was a victim of husband battering and 25 years of abuse. Furthermore, because of the stringencies of an Iranian-Jewish culture, Hanoukai felt trapped: he killed Manijeh because he was not allowed to divorce her. The jury empathized and found Hanoukai guilty only of voluntary manslaughter. Instead of 15 years to life...
...because they stop paying attention to detail." Holmes recalls Bundy's words: "You learn what you need to know to kill and take care of the details, like changing a tire. The first time you're careful; the 30th time you can't remember where you put the lug wrench...
This said, there is therefore something appealing about an unambitious movie, one without pretentions of grandeur. "Angie" could easily have slipped into that overworked category of "heart warming" movies, the ones that would lavish overweening sentiment on the death of a pet if it would wrench a single tear from the audience. It could have, but luckily it doesn...