If The Godfather took place today Captain McCluskey would have a cell phone, and so would not need to let his precinct know where he’d be. This means no way for the Corleone to plant a gun in the restaurant since they only found out about the location because of their contact in the police department.
I always carry a small flashlight.
Umm, no. Mrs Vadon accepted the baby could have been fathered by her late husband, she really wanted to know who was the Mother. That’s why the book is called The Mother Hunt. And of course there’s a murder, too.
The thought did cross my mind! (worked 10 years in healthcare IT)
But not at the poles. The orbits don’t give good coverage.
I don’t know what the orbits are like now, but when I was a lad, that was one of the reasons for using dual Russian/American navigation systems. The Russian system gave better coverage at high latitudes.
“Accurate” for rural China of the late 1800s to early 1900s? I think so. It ended with the protagonist Wang Lung’s dying around 1930, so the story basically traces Wang Lung’s life from his getting married about 50 years earlier, yeah?
I understand that modern China would not like depiction of backwards “superstitions” or rural practices as “typical”, including the buying and selling of children, concubinage, foot binding, girl infanticide in times of famine, … But that DID happen. My own parents and their generation, me being a 50 year old Chinese American here, joked about such things being done “in the near past”, meaning in their parents’ memory. In fact, my own grandmother had had her feet bound initially as a girl… A few years older and she’d have had those permanently deformed feet. And she was never formally educated, she taught herself to read by doing her brothers’ homework with them.
The CCP tries to play down that aspect of Chinese history, as even in the early Republican era (before the Communist takeover) such cultural aspects were already viewed as a major reason the Chinese people had been so shamefully weakened from their natural place at the center of the world since around 1750. The idea that this would be a source of how Westerners formed their image of current Chinese people would be very upsetting.
But taken as a work on its own, The Good Earth is not “racist” in patronizing way. But it is easy to say it’s sensationalist in that it hits nearly every “traditional” practice modern Chinese people are embarrassed about, as if with a checklist, excepting eating dogs and cats (which for the record, my parents’ crowd also used to joke about was a “Cantonese” thing to the Cantonese friends among them).
But all those jokes were among Chinese and verbal. A written work by a Westerner, even one who grew up in China (as the child of missionaries… Also associated with Western colonization and patronization), is another thing.
I haven’t seen this film, but things like this are still pretty common. This is social engineering. A modern analogue is the SIM swap scam.
I have never taken a picture of where i parked.
I have, but only in lots/garages where they have signs like B4 for different sections. Pre-cellphone, I would write the section down if I could, 'cause chances were I wouldn’t remember it.
She certainly accepts that it’s possible that her late husband fathered a child with another woman, yes. Nonetheless:
And a few pages later:
So the identity of the baby’s father–was it Richard Valdon or not?–is very much the crux of the matter; it’s just that everyone agrees that the only way they can hope to even make a probabilistic determination of that is to track down the mother, and demonstrate that she was or wasn’t an acquaintance of Valdon, and that she wasn’t off in Timbuktu or Kathmandu around the time the baby would have been conceived.
And of course there’s murder. Archie doesn’t bother to write up the cases for us that don’t involve a murder or three.
Of course, White was a public school teacher, who generally have significantly above-average benefits, so this motivation was implausible from the get-go.
She might have voted Republican the last time around… In Hollywood, keeping that under wraps would be well worth murdering your blackmailer.
…and his former business partners offered to cover all his medical costs anyway, so it’s not about health care. Anyone who watched BB and thought that Walt needed money for his medical bills, or that the show would have been over if UHC was in play, missed the whole point. It was Walt’s ego and desire to build his own empire (and to leave money for his family) that drove the show.
It is, at least, amusing that at the time The Mother Hunt was written, it was still taken for granted that paternity could never be known. Even if genetic paternity testing was impractical, they should at least have had some inkling of the possibility. Surely, they at least knew (for example) that certain blood types couldn’t be the offspring of certain other blood types.
That just eliminates, it doesnt confirm.
Where is Superman going to change without phone booths?
Yeah, you’d think that. Me, having driven over two hours into the hell-and-gone of Nevada to find the Little Ale’e’Inn, whose website SAID it was going to be open that day…
I guess with all this DNA testing, that Lace miniseries with Phoebe Cates (“Which one of you bitches is my mother??”) goes right out the window.
I’m certain that I have pointed this out before on a similar thread, but…
Red Dragon AKA Manhunter. Francis Dolarhyde finds the families he wishes to kill because he works in a film-processing laboratory **specializing in developing home movie film. ** Yeah. Hell, even when the book was originally published, home video recorders were starting to become ubiquitous.
Mind you, the film Red Dragon (made after Silence of the Lambs become an instant classic) tried to update this by having him work at a “video compilation company.” Apparently the idea was that families would send their home videotapes in and this company would edit them together complete with graphics and nifty transitions.
What??? Has anybody even heard of this sort of thing? I mean, even before video-editing software came free on your computer along with web browser and email client. Did people use to send their videotapes of Jr. bar mitzvah in to be jazzed up in such a fashion?
That’s easy; Superman relocates from Metropolis to Vienna, Austria, where all the public phone booths are still in place. (And I still regularly see people using them, too!)
Truth, Justice, and the Austrian way?
The phone booth thing was already problematic in 1978.