Word: arched
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bookie. After giving one of last year’s best performances in You Can Count on Me, I was very interested in seeing Ruffalo in a new role. Once again, he gives a solid performance, but one wishes he had better material to work with. Ultimately, his story arch is quite predictable, but his acting keeps the audience interested. It is also worth mentioning that Jerry Goldsmith contributes another very good score to this film, which, most of the time, is actually more moving than what is on screen...
...Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs have not matured in the same way at all. An often cited example is Aladdin, in which Scott Weinger ’98 was the voice of Aladdin, the hero, while the arch-villain, Jafar, speaks with a (bad) Arab accent. It does not appear, though, that this bias is malicious—merely cultural. The Siege in 1998 was an eerie prediction of Arab-American internment after terrorist attacks in New York, and the film’s intent seemed to be to show that this was not a reasonable response to a terrorist attack...
...style and sparingly-used adjectives add to the charm of Dogwalker and prevent passages that would otherwise be over the top from becoming irritating. Although some might accuse Bradford of being a little too cool, a little too ironic and a little too glib for his own good, his arch and acerbic tone prevent him from becoming heavy handed or sentimental, a far worse accusation...
...Washington Square Park, adjacent to New York University, the emptied water fountain sprouted thousands of candles and American flags, and hundreds have congregated for the nightly vigils held near the towering memorial arch...
...While the Grammy organization has promised to reopen negotiations over holding the event in Miami next year, the wounds in the Cuban exile community may not be as easily healed. Castro's twilight years are proving to be curiously trying for his arch-enemies in Florida, precisely because they've placed the question of a post-Castro Cuba, and current U.S. policy, squarely in the spotlight. And whereas many of the older generation had lived much of their lives expecting to simply sail back in and turn back the clock following some cataclysmic event that would see Castro overthrown...