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“FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable?”
“As matters unspool, the protagonists come properly to life in after-the-event interviews and genuine surveillance video; police, dealers and the pixelated informant that led the former to the latter.”
“From there, Mr. Cronenberg's dangerous methods unspool in a nearly comprehensive overview.”
“It's a genre in which sweeping narratives somehow manage to unspool through tiny but highly specific movements like a sharply bowed finger or a knowing lift of the brow.”
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“Nonetheless, one of the biggest thrills of "Blood, Bones & Butter" is watching her self-discovery unspool as the independent streak she was forced to nurture at such a young age takes stronger and stronger hold.”
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“The first to unspool his findings was David McKay, the NASA researcher who introduced the world to the softball-sized meteorite from Mars that, for a short time in the mid-1990s, was hailed as containing strong evidence that life once existed on that planet.”
“In the phrases Anna spoke into my tape recording device I heard memes of sense, whole threads of meaning, which were left to me to unspool and rewind according to the dictates of reason.”
“The tales of temptation and infidelity, foolishness and revenge unspool in a way that allows us to experience Scheherezade bewitching DeSantos's Shahryar; the audience catches glimpses of Yen's Scheherezade mimicking the gestures of her characters, in tandem with the actors portraying them.”
“Tammy Pierce's sad-sack teen-age life continues to unspool, comics-style.”
““Animal Kingdom” uses this edgy locale to unspool a gripping tale of survival and revenge.”
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bilby "The Lashkar has denied involvement, but remains the prime accused. According to the police and intelligence agencies, the Lashkar operates in India through an organization called the "Indian Mujahideen." Two Indian nationals, Sheikh Mukhtar Ahmed, a Special Police Officer working for the Jammu and Kashmir Police, and Tausif Rehman, a resident of Kolkata in West Bengal, have been arrested in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
So already the neat accusation against Pakistan is getting a little messy.
Almost always, when these stories unspool, they reveal a complicated global network of foot soldiers, trainers, recruiters, middlemen, and undercover intelligence and counter-intelligence operatives working not just on both sides of the India-Pakistan border, but in several countries simultaneously."
- Arundhati Roy, '9 Is Not 11 (And November Isn't September)', tomdispatch.com, 12 December 2008. Dec 14, 2008