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...surly bonds of realism. Kraft's characters don't talk like people actually talk. They're more witty, more astute, and they express themselves with infinitely more pizazz. This is true even of Peter's winged steed, the charmingly anthropomorphized Spirit of Babbington, which may not be an ace at lifting off but proves a surprisingly excellent road buddy. The effect is like a happy-go-lucky Nabokov, with all the road-tripping wordplay and none of the incest. It's a joy to watch Kraft resuscitate stale idioms with a simple twist, as when Peter describes the verbally dexterous...
...intense and tough. This was none the more obvious than in Lin’s performance, as the junior standout battled to an amazing 12 points despite a serious ankle injury, which forced him to hobble at every dead ball.And on top of that, the Crimson was holding an ace in the hole—Housman. The guard lit up the Penn defense for 22 huge points on top of five assists, going 8-12 from the floor.“Everything becomes much more critical because you don’t have the one or two guys that...
...many banks will fail in the U.S. over the next year as the recession deepens? Answering that is like trying to guess whether a poker player will draw an ace on any given hand. Someone may have a big computer program that can find that number, but like most statistics. It is right until...
...apprentice. (He also borrows a Hitchcock trick, from Stage Fright, of showing a misleading scene from the killer's demented point of view.) The movie is nothing above the ordinary, but that doesn't matter to the horror fanboys, who go to these movies the way their dads visit Ace Hardware. Different tools, familiar vibe...
...police force, he endures the insults of a pen salesman (Stephen Rannazzisi) and the polite indifference of Amy (Jayma Mays), the cute gal at the hair-extensions booth, without troubling to seethe. He motors around on his Segway - riding it is the one thing at which he's an ace - smiling at Amy, shrugging off the rest of the world. Either Paul is conditioned by decades of being ignored or scorned, or he's attained a degree of secular satori. Or he's an idiot...