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Fueled by viewer antipathy over the dull and listless Saw V, and the wide-release of the slow-building Paranormal Activity, Saw VI (ironically the best film in the Saw series) crumbled over the weekend before Halloween, opened with just $14 million before ending with just $27 million.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office (10/31/10): Saw 7 3D rules over one last Halloween weekend. Scott Mendelson 2010
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But with 1956's Saxophone Colossus which debuted one of his signature tunes, the calypso St Thomas, Rollins revealed an improvising imagination some compared with Charlie Parker, notably on the slow-building, faintly sinister Blue Seven.
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Since the epic of Gilgamesh and surely before, humankind has always enjoyed big, slow-building stories with a clearly-defined arc.
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Fueled by viewer antipathy over the dull and listless Saw V, and the wide-release of the slow-building Paranormal Activity, Saw VI (ironically the best film in the Saw series) crumbled over the weekend before Halloween, opened with just $14 million before ending with just $27 million.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office (10/31/10): Saw 7 3D rules over one last Halloween weekend. Scott Mendelson 2010
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The fact that Tibetans are able to wage a quiet, slow-building nonviolent movement in the most repressive political climate shows that there is a way to mobilize people power against the Chinese regime.
Tenzin Dorjee: Tiananmen 2.0: Why China Is Not Immune to the Tunisia Effect Tenzin Dorjee 2011
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Since the epic of Gilgamesh and surely before, humankind has always enjoyed big, slow-building stories with a clearly-defined arc.
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And it's straight-up Fessenden - slow-building, bizarre, and not entirely comprehensible.
android karenina intertribal 2010
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A slow-building privacy storm moved in on NebuAd Inc, the Silicon Valley startup that can facilitate the Web tracking.
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And it's straight-up Fessenden - slow-building, bizarre, and not entirely comprehensible.
intertribal: four good horror movies intertribal 2010
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The fact that Tibetans are able to wage a quiet, slow-building nonviolent movement in the most repressive political climate shows that there is a way to mobilize people power against the Chinese regime.
Tenzin Dorjee: Tiananmen 2.0: Why China Is Not Immune to the Tunisia Effect Tenzin Dorjee 2011
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