Word: excepting
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...overheard conversations involve looks-except the conversations about gunfights, which remind us that violence is a possible outcome of any story unfolding on screen. It works. I constantly expected someone to shoot themselves or someone else in a fit of enigmatic French passion...
Enter Elston Rupp. He wears a ridiculous looking red and black tuxedo; he knows Sarah's name, he talks about fate. None of this would be particularly remarkable except for the fact that Sarah left the bar with him and was never seen again. Elston mentions that he drowns people in bathtubs-he takes them home and keeps them for a few days to talk to them and then he kills them. We never find out if this was Sarah's fate or if she simply decided to disappear. The play instead focuses on the lives of these...
...From the Gore camp, a very big sigh. Six hours after Judge Terry Lewis ruled against them and four hours after David Boies and Warren Christopher had to loudly brush off the expected Bush victory - "nothing's going on this weekend except maybe some premature partying" - Democrats no longer have to worry about an officially certified Bush win whetting the public appetite...
Even before Napster, Bertelsmann's e-empire spanned global Web brands, including partnerships with giant search engine TerraLycos, music sites CDNow and GetMusic and a 40% interest in Barnes&Noble.com Middelhoff claims that as of July, Bertelsmann was ahead of every competitor except the Walt Disney Co. in visitors to its online sites. "Speed, speed, speed" is the Middelhoff mantra. "The world is changing fast," he said over dinner in Germany last June. "Companies must continually reinvent themselves and not be tied to one structure...
...long shadows. Though there's little about music here, another of Ms. Sinatra's observations puts Frank's shortcomings into proper perspective: "Had he been a healthier, less tortured man, he might have been Perry Como." Of course you can't balance a childhood against, say, All the Way, except to say, her loss, our gain...