Word: affairs
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...second half belonged to St. John’s, the first was a more communal affair. The Crimson and the Red Storm each picked its moments to shine, building increasingly substantial leads before clutch shooting from the opposition brought the deficit back to a more manageable margin...
...rigueur in the cult of the North American suburban gothic that every SUV-driving, Levi’s-wearing mother secretly pops Adderall at her son’s soccer games or constantly downs Chardonnay to ease the pain of her husband’s extra-marital affair with his male coworker. Or something like that.James Boice echoes an all-too-common fear of sameness and suburban alienation when he describes the citizens of his hometown of Little Rocky Run, Virginia: “And they went to the gym after work and met their friends for happy hour...
...casual morphine addiction. “Yes, she’d hidden her kit from Frank as much as possible and from Leora too, not that she was ashamed or in danger of becoming a morphinomane or anything of that nature, but because her medicines were a private affair and no one else’s…” Boyle masterfully conveys the relentless paranoia of this deranged woman. Her uncontrollable fits of rage lead her to attack Wright like a force of nature—at one point she even demolishes the interior of his house with...
...epitomizes what Big Beach Films continues to get right, despite its predictable recipe for indie flick humor.The biohazard removal business shines as a beacon of hope for the film’s lovable, but not particularly successful, sisterly duo. Adams plays a once-popular cheerleader having an affair with her married ex-quarterback, ex-boyfriend Mac (Steve Zahn). Their son Oscar (Jason Spevack) is in desperate need of expensive, individualized private school enrollment thanks to his habit of licking walls at his current public school. Norah has even less to look forward to in the morning. In the words...
...declarations of fury was to roll my eyes and mutter something about this being a trivial distraction from the Important Things we need to be dealing with. (I suspect that similar sentiments on the part of Geithner and Summers largely explain their politically tone-deaf handling of the bonus affair.) (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...