Sentences with phrase «about detours»

The Town Board will also look into the MTA protocol for informing municipalities about the detours.

Similarly, the town's police department has also received short notice about the detours, Mr. Ruland said.

Don't worry about the detours and breakdowns, just focus on the journey.

Plotwise, his character is just taking up space — the movie runs 142 minutes, and feels it — but he's so much fun to watch that it's hard to complain about the detour.

About Detour's Venice - Abbot Kinney's Impossible Dream: Discover how Venice was created — and almost destroyed — and meet the spirit of town - founder Abbot Kinney.

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Taking a detour from her usual celebrity haunts, Lopez made an unusual appearance Wednesday at a venture capital conference in San Francisco to talk about potential business deals with the tech industry.

In a long discussion about her new book, Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration, on Kellogg insight recently, Thompson takes a long detour into the psychology of conflict and what leaders can do to ensure their teams fight in a healthy and productive way.

He also writes about student loans, investing, and loan management at the Future Proof Detour section of his blog.

Would not the record of society's past experience with advances in the transmission of information have led him to expect that the faster a mere mortal travels the abundantly informed infobahn, the sooner he will arrive at the crossroads, detours, and turnoffs that invalidate the map that led him to them, and so be tempted to an enervating postmodern skepticism about the reliability of any map?

Archer took it as a good sign Saturday that his players were able to crack jokes about an unplanned 20 - minute detour the team bus had to take en route to A & M's Kyle Field.

Lightning McQueen, a hot shot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs.

We need to work together to quickly disseminate information to residents about when road work is starting and what detours to expect.

The Times» story about the troubling record of the top to aide to Gov. Paterson takes a detour into the Bronx, where the aide, David W. Johnson, reportedly had an altercation with a woman in October that led to police intervention.

«They can tell you if an oncoming vehicle is about to run a red light, or if a car is coming around a blind corner, or if a detour would help you save time and gas.»

With sly wit and boyish wonder, Kean's vignettes about key events in the understanding of air include numerous entertaining detours, such as the work of «William McGonagall, probably the worst poet who ever lived,» and Le Pétomane, a flatulence artist.

Sweeney found that the mechanistic answers that Pinker offered about the mind — the brain - based mechanisms of thought and consciousness being discovered by modern neuroscience — inspired her to replace her Catholic faith with science's empirical skepticism, which she finds, after many hilarious detours, «a much more powerful and reliable tool for understanding the world.»

A detour followed, during which I edited short films for director friends and learned about sound design.

So if you wouldn't mind indulging me for a brief detour into animation territory, let's see what Hollywood gets right (and wrong) about this -LSB-...]

I learned about microloans in 1992, on what was supposed to be a short detour from a career in hedge funds.

Because you want to walk at least 30 minutes each day (about 3,000 to 5,000 steps), a detour will help, says Juan Remos, MD, an internist and health - and - wellness director at The Miami Institute for Age Management and Intervention.

Detour away from «the usual places» and don't even think about acting like old marrieds.

A complete detour from shocking color pop, mono looks are all about black and white prints from stripes to florals and baroque patterns.

We find a route and about halfway down that we encounter a closed road and detour, which added another 10 minutes or so to the trip.

I'm taking a quick detour from my recent UK travel posts today to talk about something I'm really excited about.

Sidney, Ohio About Blog Because despite my rocky detours, I've created everything I ever wanted — a virtual business that can plug into any port, a multiple six - figure income with room to keep rising, and the chance to help women in every country transform their lives.

Although there are gentle detour discussions about advertising in classrooms and school buses, Spurlock's ironic approach can't convince us that ads are toxic.

The slim plot mainly involves Menashe's attempt to impress his brother - in - law and their rabbi by hosting a successful memorial dinner for his late wife, the preparations for which detour into a brief subplot about a pricey shipment of gefilte fish.

The eternal romantic Richard Curtis re-emerges to take us on a wistful walk down memory lane with an unexpected detour in his latest rom - com, About Time.

Barrymore can hardly remember a line, and many of those he is fed spark rambling detours about his life.

Baby Driver (June 28) Writer - director Edgar Wright spins a music - fueled saga about a youthful getaway driver whose romantic dreams of escape take a detour when a planned final heist goes sideways.

Sadly, what could have been a tender tale about letting your children grow up and move on gets lost in a jumble of detours that often aren't funny or even entertaining.

There's a lot of information given about the movie's creation and development (many abandoned concepts are discussed), though there are a number of interesting detours too (on subjects like autobiography titles and great food combinations).

About his ability to marshal big egos there can be little doubt, but his camera bobs all over the axis of action like a first - year film student, and he shows almost no command of tone, reducing the material's vaguely satirical detours into perversion (incest!

Nevertheless, that statement should do nothing to detour those interested in the film from checking it out and / or at least giving Steve's video interviews with Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, William Fichtner (who talks about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and Ruth Wilson a fair shake.

Though much of the film consists of little more than Paisley and McGuinness verbally parrying back and forth in a moving van, the filmmakers seem so concerned about not making the story feel stagey and claustrophobic that they invent ways of getting the men out of the vehicle; most conspicuous is a flat tire that leads to an extended detour into a forest and an invalid credit card that holds the two men up at a gas station.

Following his attention - getting appearances in 1981's Body Heat (in which he played a smoking - hot arsonist) and 1982's Diner (an ensemble film where he handily out - handsomed his co-stars), Mickey Rourke had about a decade as a conventional — and conventional - looking — leading man before his acting career took a backseat to his detour into professional boxing.

By the time Anderson's done, you'll realize there's an answer embedded in those funky detours, the same way that you can pick out a family drama in his porn - industry epic, Boogie Nights; an old - fashioned romance in Punch - Drunk Love; and character studies about the self - made man in There Will Be Blood and The Master.

That wasn't entirely unreasonable — for years the series had thrived on PlayStation and now it was about to take a colossal detour.

It doesn't sound like a must - see from that description, but A Separation is an expertly plotted, riveting drama that takes unexpected detours and raises all kinds of questions about societal and religious traditions.

The film's greatest influence came through the screenplay, by Rafelson and Carole Eastman; it allowed detours and digressions, cared more about behavior than plot, ended in a way and tone that could not have been guessed from its beginning.

Seven Psychopaths constantly detours to short stories about other psychopaths like Zachariah (Tom Waits), a serial killer of serial killers, who now goes around carrying a bunny.

This Week: Kevin takes a few detours in this episode, taking a look at a kind listener email as well as finally getting back in the swing of things to talk about a listener recommendation.

The best of the Thor movies feels like about five different screenplays grafted together, complete with several narrative detours that ultimately don't go anywhere all that interesting.

And you can't say the film doesn't self - referentially warn you about the majority of its final hour — a talky detour into Joshua Tree National Park where Billy and Hans each take a crack at fleshing out the themes of Marty's script.

In this decade she's taken a strange detour but continued to take all kinds of risks in Shaft, Hotel Splendide, Changing Lanes, About a Boy, Dirty Deeds, The Hours, Japanese Story, Connie and Carla, The Last Shot, In Her Shoes, Little Miss Sunshine, The Night Listener, The Dead Girl, Mary and Max... and the United States of Tara.

The flashback, circular structure of a narrative about a doomed man is an essential feature of film noir (see Sunset Boulevard, Out Of The Past, Detour, Double Indemnity, etc) and Lost Highway is structured like a Möbius strip, coiling back on itself in a way that reflects the disturbed consciousness of the protagonist, condemned to replay the tragic events of his life in an endless loop.

These narrative films ``... would help to break ground in Hollywood in terms of funding women storytellers and women who were directing the films...» The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will premiere three Gamechanger films: The Tale, a story about sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox; Nancy, a dramatic story blurring the lines of fact and fiction written and directed by Christina Choe; and The Long Dumb Road, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidell.

More distasteful are the screenplay's occasional detours into ersatz idol worship, like a monologue about bald eagles that slides a little too far into Tarantino territory and the Coen brothers - lite characterizations of secondary criminal characters, particularly that of Mood.

Michelle Fine (1987) in her ethnographic essay on Silencing in Public Schools, details how student discourse about race and class inequities in students» lived experiences inside and outside the school were often detoured or outright shut down by teachers who were uncomfortable in discussing how societal inequities manifested themselves in students» everyday lives.

The loping highway gait is actually quite pleasant and the high driving position feels purposeful, but detour into the twists and turns of the mountains around LA and you'll go to sleep that evening with the sounds of tortured rubber in your head, and reeling from nightmares about canyon - seeking understeer.