No one would mistake "The Blind Side," John Lee Hancock's squeaky-clean tale of the teen-aged Michael Oher and the wealthy Southern family that sheltered, nurtured, and adopted him, for a liberal screed.
A sappy, squeaky-clean tale of mom, dad, sis and junior and the sloppy St. Bernard that goes along on their vacation, the film gets the job done for the average 8-year-old.
It's a hell of a lot simpler to create this clean, uncomplicated tale of racial tension than it is to correctly identify George as the product of an interracial marriage between a white father and Peruvian mother.
It's a hell of a lot simpler to create this clean, uncomplicated tale of racial tension than it is to correctly identify Zimmerman as the product of an interracial marriage between a white father and Peruvian mother.
It's a hell of a lot simpler to create this clean, uncomplicated tale of racial tension than it is to correctly identify Zimmerman as the product of an interracial marriage between a white father and Hispanic mother.
since all i have are memories of effortless clean-ups, my tale is one of woe rather than one of fondness.
In Upland, schools opened as usual this morning, while business owners and city officials swapped tales, cleaned up debris and tried to come up with their own estimates.
Visitors to continental Europe and elsewhere return with awed tales of cheap, clean trains that run on time, zippy new roads and properly functioning airports, which are crossly compared with Britain's pot-holes, delays and check-in scrums.
She is as hunched and spindly as a figure in a Cranach painting, and the idea that anyone could imprison this girl — or imprison her further — is a bad joke...The final shot of "Alone" is a perfect composition: a table being wiped in a cafe, as if Amelie's tale were being cleaned away.
I cleaned up a little fairy tale about a monkey I'd written for the class at Harvard (I enjoy a little creative writing now and then) and sent it to the magazine, and they published it, along with my photo.
More importantly, the Clean Energy Economy Gateway is an open and free resource for all of us in the clean economy to tell our tales of job creation, of seemingly insurmountable hurdles, and of our ideas for solutions.
