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What also makes Bears a Linklater film is the naturalness of most of the actors. "He gets these honest performances out of these kids," says the film's co-writer Glenn Ficarra, "not this Broadway, arms-akimbo stuff." Linklater casts people whose personality already matches the part and lets them be themselves. For the two biggest non-adult roles he used kids who had never acted before, but played ball. "You can't teach a kid to throw in three weeks," he says. "You get a baseball player who can be herself...
...overworked surface, clings to some of the early watercolors--in particular, the paintings of fisherfolk he did during a 20-month stay in the northern English coastal village of Cullercoats in 1881-82. Those robust girls, simple, natural, windbeaten and enduring, planted in big boots with arms akimbo against the elemental planes of sea, rock and sky, are also images of a kind of moralizing earnestness that was common in French salon art a century ago. Idealizations of the peasant, reflecting an anxiety that folk culture was being annihilated by the gravitational field of the city, were the stock...
...Begin,” the lights on stage flashed dramatically. During the chorus, with the stage lit white, Stipe even broke out his uniquely peculiar dance remembered most vividly from the “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” music video—limbs akimbo, body flailing, rapt in musical ecstasy...
...experiential side, I did genuinely enjoy interacting with some of the pieces; “Head Body Limbs,” in particular. There was something strangely satisfying about becoming part of the sculpture’s structure, gripping the cloth and standing there with arms akimbo, feeling my body share the tension of the canvas as I actively gave form to the object. Perhaps the closest I can come to describing it is to say that I felt a little like I imagine a tent pole might feel—assuming that the pole is vaguely aware that...
...tired of viewing the same old sitcoms and reality shows on TV but don't want to pay a big monthly fee for premium cable or satellite offerings, a new service called Akimbo may tempt you. For just $10 a month starting this spring, Akimbo will deliver programs ranging from independent films to foreign-language news to rock-climbing videos. Akimbo sends the video feed over a broadband Internet connection to your Akimbo player ($199). You can choose from 10,000 hours of programming and store up to 200 hours on your player at a time...