With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up. — Akira Toriyama 64 I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behin...
No electricity, no running water. Fifteen families in the Zidane building alone. Six flights up, 70-year-old Najah Zidane burns rags to cook—there's no fuel, no trees. The ceiling looks exhausted and winter comes this week. We'd like to show you the immensity...
Gilles Tetreault: I can't do this, I gotta fight back … so I got up and I ripped the tape off my eyes. … And he was stunned that I got up and started yelling at me to back down on the ground. Instead, he grabbed the attacker's gun. Gilles Tetreault: When I … grabbed th...
Sometimes, though, the plug gets pulled for reasons that were avoidable — and sometimes, the reasons are even downright dumb. With that in mind, here's a look back into TV history, rounding up some of the most senseless cancellations ever committed. Even if you're a hardcore television fa...
The Speaker of the House, second in line to the presidency behind the Vice President wakes up every morning worried that he did not properly respond to something Musk wants. I exaggerate not. This week he is quoted as saying that Musk has the power to “blow the whole thing up” if he...
shoot someone a text:相当于text someone,给某人发信息本剧语境:Taylor要出门和姐姐们见面,顺便说一下他们现在是三人一起生活的感情状态。 09:44 - The one you promised would be done a month ago? The one I talked up to Paramount. Got 'em all excited, and now they're pissed off wondering ...
I said that I feared that I’d never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. Suddenly, without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently led me out. Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the toxin. There...
While it's unlikely that anyone got strung up or incinerated for making the bed or selling a surreptitious pint of ale on Sunday, the laws did wind up costing non-compliant merchants money in the form of summons and fines--which often wound up in the pockets of the lawmakers. Non-Christi...
"He’s an interesting man because he came up in the organization without many arrests," Boyce said of Cali. Cali was arrested and convicted at least once, which pales in comparison to other mob leaders. In 2008, Cali was sentenced to 16 months in prison after pleading guilty to extortion...
In the beginning of the experiment, sarcastic utterances also received longer look-backs from the spillover region, implying increased sentence wrap-up processing (Rayner et al., 2000). The finding that the sentence wrap-up effect (i.e., look-back time to the target utterance from the spill...