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An early scene serves as a cross-section of Desplechin's brilliance and a dissection of his concerns: He nests a chaotic courtroom scene as a flashback in an eerily restrained psychotherapy session, delineating the details of the siblings' split and the differences between them with contrasting styles that heighten the emotional impact rather than fracture it. Desplechin's approach is one of collage - he's freewheeling with his handheld camera at times, but also has characters speak directly to a sturdy, dolly-mounted camera, and uses everything from harps to hip-hop on the soundtrack. There's a caution-to-the-wind quality to how he uses all these techniques, but his decisions are always spot-on due to his deep grasp of the content and his love of every character that enters the film. ..
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After reaching a "gentlemens agreement" on the fate of three fired employees Tu...
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Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the nomination of Goodwin Liu for an appeals court judgeship, accusing him of being a liberal activist and handing President Obama his first judicial defeat of the year. The Republican-led filibuster also may signal the end of January's gentlemen's agreement between the Senate's party leaders designed in part to streamline the judicial confirmation process.
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In a deal that protected jobs but could be costing taxpayers as much as $20 million annually, Memphis reached a "gentlemen's agreement" with union leaders six years ago not to modernize the city's solid waste-collection fleet, officials say. City Council member Kemp Conrad and Public Works director Dwan Gilliom confirmed this week that in 2005 the city, under then-mayor Willie Herenton, and AFSCME Local 1733, which represents sanitation workers, agreed to not purchase more modern, automated vehicles that require fewer personnel to operate.
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Even though the city of Oklahoma City paid more than $27 million for the water storage rights to the Sardis Reservoir in Oklahoma City, city officials haven't pushed for approval of a water rights permit at the reservoir because they fear a federal lawsuit, the governor of the Chickasaw Nation said last week. In an Executive Session interview with The Journal Record - set to be published in early May - Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby said the "gentlemen's agreement" to delay action on the permit between the city of Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board was caused by the threat of a federal lawsuit from two of the state's largest Native American tribes.
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Three months after Senate leaders reached a gentlemen's agreement aimed in part at clearing a backlog of judicial nominations, the chamber is on pace to confirm more nominees in 2011 than in several years. Despite the uptick, the judicial confirmation process has become significantly more laborious than in past administrations, when all but the most controversial nominees for district and appeals court openings typically sailed through the Senate with little trouble.
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Jack Maybury, president and CEO of Derringer Co., a vending/foodservice operation based in Cincinnati, Ohio, said there is a gentlemen's agreement among operators in the Cincinnati, Ohio area to advise each other of vending machine burglaries. "All of us will call the competitors if we've been hit" Maybury said. "It's an unwritten code.
