Word: apartness
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...ironic that so many Americans tore themselves apart over the death of Schiavo but had no qualms about sending thousands of able-bodied young men and women off to Iraq to kill and be killed in a needless...
...older we get, the sweeter it is to be with those who knew us way back when. It's not unusual for seniors to track down and marry their first loves after decades apart. The Internet makes that easier, with sites that will do a search for $50 or less, like findpeoplefast.com You may have difficulty finding such common names from so long ago. But the Web has also lowered the cost of hiring a professional, says licensed investigator Ann Flaherty of the R.D.D. Detective Agency in Pacifica, Calif. A detective might charge $125 to $500 but will have access...
...else had got there first; foreign investors, mostly from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, have driven up prices at an astonishing rate. One promising complex was the Summit: it's well located, solidly built by a reputable foreign developer (a key consideration in a city where many buildings fall apart), and has all the trappings an expat might want, from indoor pool to cigar room. The trouble was, the asking price for a large three-bedroom had doubled in two years to about $800,000?perhaps a third of what it would cost in Hong Kong, but hardly a steal...
This flick cuts through the friends’ relationship—held together by love and driven apart by jealousy built up over the years of close companionship—while the omnipresent threat of imminent death stands over them. Cassavetes’ frighteningly desperate performance shows him going through the stages of grief for his own life. It is saved from saccharine self-pity by his character’s tragically flawed nature and eyebrows that twitch like those of Jack Nicholson’s Joker in “Batman...
After the first half, what little sense or tension the movie has falls apart, and it becomes a game of spot-the-cliché. For a film that proclaims in a title card at the start that it is “Based On the True Story,” it is remarkably derivative. Especially as the real George Lutz, who probably made up the story to begin with, is calling the remake “drivel that is pure sophistry,” this is perhaps to be expected...