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...strong performances of its cast. Deschanel imparts just the right mixture of anger and vulnerability to make her character likeable—no mean feat, given some of her character’s actions. Harris, though confined by his character’s extreme introversion, conveys the pathetic anguish of an author who’s lost the ability to communicate with the outside world. Perhaps the most surprising turn, however, is Ferrell. Though not quite as successful as Jim Carrey in “The Truman Show,” Ferrell restrains (mostly) his trademark goofy slapstick to play...
...Cheney's stubborn diffidence may have been something else entirely: a consequence of the incoherence and confusion that come with emotional trauma, as well as an understandable desire to protect oneself and one's friends from the ravening horde at a moment of personal anguish...
...possibility of vice-presidential anguish was barely mentioned by most commentators at first. Cheney is a tough customer; Oprahfied "sharing" isn't his way. But then, there he was, with that haunted look in his Fox News interview, saying, "[T]he image of him falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind. I fired, and there's Harry falling ..." Hunting had given him "great pleasure" in the past, but he wasn't so sure now. In fact, he sounded a lot like the combat veterans I've spoken with over the years, for whom...
...gains; the other looked to the market and the price mechanism to guarantee growth and allocate resources efficiently. But those days - when speakers at the Labour Party conference referred to their audience as "comrades," one of Brown's predecessors promised to squeeze the rich until they "howl with anguish," and François Mitterrand won the presidency of France on a manifesto red in tooth and claw - are long gone. As Osborne says: "We've all read Adam Smith now." With the triumph of the market revolution, European politics has been reduced to a choice between technocratic solutions to social...
...field, there are hundreds of cases that may be - and a wide range of penalties for misjudging one, from the social embarrassment of missing a bird (quail hunting has an aristocratic tone that fosters a lot of ribbing about poor marksmanship) to the mortal anguish of hitting a human being. The sport is dangerous, which heightens its thrill, but it's a civilized level of danger that's usually manageable through good equipment, experienced companions, and traditional codes of conduct. The emotions behind these codes are old and fixed: pride and shame. Like a mountain climbing expedition, a hunting trip...