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...screen faces and nonprofessionals - is no more than efficient. But because violence erupts without warning, Gomorrah keeps you alert through the mundane parts. In the first scene, meaty men get gunned down in a tanning salon. That sets the movie's dramatic coordinates. People die stepping outside their front door, or in a whorehouse, or just fooling around on the street. In a typical crime movie, there's a suspenseful buildup to the bog kills. Here, death explodes prosaically, capriciously, as in Baghdad or Kabul...
Johnson, who is as plain as a vanilla milk shake, swinging from the pits? Not likely, and even Smith qualified his statement by saying that it's not so much pugilism but door-to-door drama that the sport needs right now. "We need to get back a little beating and banging, a little nudging," he said. "We need some of the numbers rubbed off the door. We need some of that...
...itself a predictor of health. And in another study he conducted that was just accepted for publication, he found that people who believe their lives have meaning live longer than people who don't. "That's one of the purported reasons for religion," Krause says. "The sign on the door says, 'Come in here and you'll find meaning...
Indeed, it is only a matter of time before combat pilots, like biplanes, become obsolete. Tail-mounted GPS kits have given even dumb bombs amazing accuracy once they are pushed out the door of a lumbering cargo plane. Missiles launched from ships or subs have further minimized the need for penetrating warplanes. Meanwhile, much of the Raptor's sky-high price--and that of accompanying jammer planes and rescue helicopters--is driven by the need to get the pilot into harm's way and then safely out. Even worse, while the Air Force wants more fighters from a bygone...
...Tchen was not the only one preparing for a place in the limelight—she ran the HoCo with future Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78. In her role as the Director of Public Liaison for Obama, Tchen will oversee the “front door to the White House,” according to the administration’s Web site, something for which her undergraduates provided early preparation. In addition to serving as HoCo chair, Tchen, a sociology concentrator, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and edited the Arts section of The Harvard...