Example sentences for: russell

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  • Based on a grim novel by the Baron of Bleak, Russell Banks, and set in a frigid town in northern New Hampshire, Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), a part-time police officer and full-time flunky, who's constitutionally unequipped to survive a succession of personal and professional crises.

  • Russell Honore interview (Oct.

  • As former Federal Reserve governor, OMB director, and CBO director Alice Rivlin noted at the time, when she and Chatterbox were on a panel together, if someone other than Russell Long had proposed this, they would have been acclaimed as a hero.

  • Similarly for Voltaire (not funny), Thomas Fuller (The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir--clever but not funny), and Bertrand Russell (There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge--wise but not funny), and Sigmund Freud (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar--a straight line funny only to us).

  • You'd think Petersen would have fun staging an airborne showdown, but there's not a scene in Air Force One that wasn't done 10 times better in the underrated Kurt Russell hijacked-airplane thriller, Executive Decision . That movie had the good sense to leave its absurd politics (first Chechen, then Middle Eastern) on the margins, and to focus instead on the scary ordeal of being stuck on a plane piloted by crazies.


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