But this model of marriage has left many less-educated, less well-off Americans without a viable life script.

WSJ: The New Unmarried Moms

The director, Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Meg, pretends to confront the chaos of contemporary urban life: free-floating anger and violence, racial abrasions, the fragility of family bonds.

NEWYORKER: Grand Canyon

Soon, unwittingly, they're trading fire with real life bad guys -- thus the true meaning of shooting without a script.

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The life of Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a former illegal immigrant, may sound like a movie script, but it is no fiction.

NPR: Farmworker to Surgeon: Immigrant Lives Dream

It boasts the built-in interest of a script by Ingmar Bergman, dramatizing the courtship and early married life of his parents.

NEWYORKER: The Best Intentions

Using that above mentioned circuitry, lightly modified to accommodate RTS output and sufficient power demands, and the addition of a simple python script to translate that fluctuating index into real-time ticks, Ames was able to breath new life into an antiquated piece of Americana.

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