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...owned corporations knew that their days at the helm could be numbered. Chirac had pledged that he would carry out a sweeping program of denationalization. Observed an executive at a government-controlled bank: "Rather fewer decisions have been made lately. There's no sense in crawling out on a limb that you know is going to be sawed...
...begins, perhaps, with Cameron's willingness to let his wife "delete" what she calls his "truck driver" language and their desire to make their action films "intense, uncompromising, but with the amount of gore restrained and deaths inferred offstage -- even those of people you'd like to see torn limb from limb," as he puts it. It proceeds through the fact that in both The Terminator and Aliens, evil is symbolized by nonhuman characters; it continues with the demonstration, in both pictures, that "it's more interesting to see a normal person in abnormal circumstances than a highly trained person...
...that as the break heals, calcium forms over the break and reveals the fracture more plainly. This explains why one doctor might miss a fracture, whereas another doctor, who sees a patient a while later, may tell the patient that he has been walking around with a broken limb for a while...
...Turkey Deluxe is one thing, life and limb another, so I politely explained that I had simply been on my way to see if anyone would hire a vacationing Social Studies concentrator, and I had thought it funny that an actor with fewer lines than Rin-Tin-Tin had won a dramatic award. As it released me, it winked, "Social Studies, huh? Well, have a nice day, comrade...
Jewett, too, is described as unafraid to go out on a limb. "He's not hesitant to make the tough decisions," says Dingman...