Mr. Massino's testimony also highlighted his underworld executive acumen in addition to his lifetime of crime, much of it in service of the Bonanno family, with which he said he had been affiliated for 33 or 34 years.
The cognitive and brain sciences have shown that reason really is mostly unconscious; physical (uses the brain); requires emotion; uses frames, metaphors and melodramatic narratives; varies depending on worldview; and is used at least as much in the service of empathy as of self-interest.
As for influences - I would say filmmakers like PT Anderson (Magnolia), Sidney Lumet (Network), Michael Haneke (Caché), and Edgar Wright (Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead) are inspiring because of how much they control their craft in service of the stories they tell.
Whether it's dressing up that decaying store-bought fruit cake or recycling leftover birthday themes, pretty much anything is fair game in service of a Christmas decoration.
"This film got me off the hook a little bit in the sense that I'm not finding myself too much in the service of the Israeli foreign ministry".
Joseph notes that "it is often the fate of those who are sent to help us to remain hidden or unrecognized," but the plot here seems too much in the service of the parable.
That's because so much of this music is put in service of lyrics about abject heartbreak and romantic collapse.
It is a strange thing to present so much physical activity and swift talking in service of a play committed to the expression of harrowing stagnancy.
Nascar dad wants to know that all his hard work, all his effortful virtue and his diligent vigilance, all his ancient bravery and his bone-deep devotion, all his canny intelligence and his remarkable ingenuity, all his abiding love of country, and all the struggle in his living and his dying, is in service of something much greater than himself.
Ultimately, the novel revolves around a geopolitical plot that, between armed drones, dirty bombs, and thermonuclear devices, ultimately appears to level much of the developed world, all in service of a prophecy involving the Illuminati and Knights Templar.
