Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheer parallelism I will criticize "Gladiator" on a film-appreciation level: The cinematography is childish. For example, after two KOd bodies are strewn across the ring, the camera, emulating tactics delineated in the World Wrestling Federation hand-book, pans down on them from above. Audience laughter undoubtedly follows this most unsubtle ploy...
...complain on an empirical level: If one were to compress all the dialogue that the protagonist, Tom Riley (James Marshall), delivers throughout the film, excluding grunts and growls, one would not fill even the time it takes him to knock out a bloodied opponent in the ring...
...soon seems that boxing is Tom's only option for lifting his father from the albatross of debts garnered after his wife's death. He does this in a ring with such aptly-named opponents as Black Death...
Pepperd surrendered his wallet to the thief, who then demanded his watch and ring. According to the police report, the assailant took the watch but told Pepperd to keep the ring whenthe victim was unable to remove it from hisfinger...
Several members of the recently busted ring have agreed to plead guilty, and are expected to testify against yet more participants. In many instances, the Social Security employees sold earnings histories for $25 apiece, and these were then marked up by brokers and resold for as much as $175. Local law- enforcement employees punched into the FBI's national database for criminal-history reports, which subsequently retailed for $100. In telephone conversations taped by federal agents, information brokers bragged about pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. One Tampa-based outfit, Nationwide Electronic Tracking, even advertised its illegal services...