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 Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C.  B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers.  Blogged by David Gorsline. 
 
    
  
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       John Garfield is wasted in 1939's They Made Me a Criminal, and Claude Rains could not be more miscast.  This is perhaps the only flick with a plot point that hinges on a farmer opening a valve to irrigate a field of vegetables. 
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       Sounds like a Broadway hit to me:
 
 
A black, empty stage. Lights up on Annie, a bruised and battered orphan girl whose cataract-stricken eyes have no visible pupils. Around her, other abandoned girls sleep fitfully on the dirty sweatshop floor as she sings...
 
(Thanks to robot wisdom.) 
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       D.C. officials have released designs for the new baseball stadium for the Nationals.  Ehh, it's hard to tell from a few renderings, but it's not very impressive.  Looks too much like it was designed to satisfy too many non-baseball interests. 
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