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But neither script nor plot measures up: "The noir atmosphere doesn't quite smother the dialogue's cheesy smell" (Gene Seymour, Los Angeles Times ). (Visit the official site.)
In contrast, these verb pictures can also smother insight when ill-conceived--as were the charts prepared by the manufacturer Morton Thiokol to illustrate the behavior in cold weather of the O-rings on the space shuttle Challenger.
Before running away from home in Newark, N.J., to the Catholic home--known locally as the Convent--for instance, a character named Mavis allows her twin infants to smother to death in the family car.
At any time of day you can wander into the fields and meet the modest farmers, who might smother you with hospitality (cigars, coffee, and so forth) and pose for photos.
One of the young Bullets, Jaren Jackson, tried to smother Jordan and prevent him from getting the ball.