Once they get through studio committees and rewrite teams, scripts are no longer tissues of emotion and incident but adrenaline flow charts.In general, the stories are either as rudimentary as the people against the elements plot of the movie Twister or as knotted up as the bodies in a game of Twister. The horror movie “Gotcha!” that De Palma mastered in Carrie (1975) giving the audience one last jolt after the action appeared to be over has crept into all genres, whether it works or not. An accomplished and underrated action romance like Conspiracy Theory (by far my favorite summer movie) will loop the loop once or twice too often, while a comic special effects show like Men in Black (which at least had a few laughs) careens from playfulness to arbitrary absurdity.Using abrupt plot turns or never before seen special effects to blindside the audience does produce shocks of a sort, but not shocks of recognition those require more of what Graham Greene called “the human factor.” Producers have squeezed the H factor out of mass market movies because it’s unruly, unpredictable, and politically and emotionally loaded.

What’s more, an official Chinese reaction “could have been counterproductive”, said Bondaz. On the one hand, “Chinese public opinion could have the impression that Beijing does not exercise sufficient control over waters it claims,” he explained. On the other hand, being too aggressive over the slightest passage of a ship that does not pose a particular military threat “would reinforce the impression among other countries that Beijing considers this area as a kind of inland sea”, Bondaz said..

The history that I heard was this: Modern health insurance is a descendant from an earlier system that can best be described as a “hospital subscription”. In this system, a person paid a monthly fee to the hospital and they would either get the services of that hospital for free or at a deep discount. Administrators really liked this system because it also meant that income came in at a steady rate, as opposed to depending purely on surgery fees..

The Planning Division’s Staff Report concluded that Edgewood’s request meets this standard. One thing that the Plan Division’s Report did not specifically point out is that this same standard applied in January 2013 when the City zoned Edgewood into the CI District without a master plan. At that time, the Common Council would have had to find that zoning Edgewood into the CI District without a master plan satisfied this standard.