If you've seen writer-director Frank Darabont's films (including two King adaptations, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile, " that earned him Oscar nominations), you'll know he's an old-time Hollywood classicist at heart.

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The lights in your brain dim like it's midnight on the Green Mile and wherever you were, you ain't anymore.

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He took it personally, as he puts it, but it's not all about stopping the flow of oil money - the man also has a green streak a mile wide.

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The clear trend at this show is toward green cars that go the extra mile with regular old internal-combustion engines.

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This means that diplomats are, in effect, stuck in the four-mile-square fortified Green Zone.

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It will be rolling out fibre to the cabinet technology (FTTC) - which provides a fibre connection as far as the familiar green boxes on the corner of streets but still relies on copper wiring for the so-called last mile between the cabinet and the home.

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In addition to their daily City Bike Tour, this environmentally-friendly company offers a seasonal 15-mile autumn foliage tour along the Emerald Necklace, a network of parks and green spaces southwest of the city centre.

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Within a thirty mile stretch of where I am writing the rocks jutting up from the sea are green.

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