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Tonight on the news they show ice floes moving like dreamships up the Clark Fork, silent and serene, knocking out bridges, destroying homes along the verge.
Then Chatterbox recalculated Bradley's lifetime LCV score by knocking out 1993 through 1996, when Bradley retired, since this was a period when Gore wasn't around to vote (except, of course, on Senate tie-breakers, but LCV doesn't count those).
Does this mean the U.S. really is taking over the world and I can now expect my Congressperson to come knocking here in good old God zone next election?
Five patients showed a lymphocytic infiltration after antisense treatment indicating that knocking out the IGF-IR induced an immune response.
This is low-tech inventiveness at its best" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). BWP is "the new face of movie horror" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ), and it ends with "as heart-stopping a climax as any the genre has seen in years" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The Los Angeles Times ' Kevin Thomas demurs, knocking it as "a clever, entertaining stunt, no more, no less," but Joe Morgenstern (the Wall Street Journal ) advises, "Don't see this ingenious first feature if you believe in ghosts."