Word: attainability
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...that's just the beginning. In need of help with his book learning, Carl wins the support of the dubious local librarian (an appealing Aunjanue Ellis). Can love and marriage be far behind? Not in this movie. Will Carl attain his goal and Billy's reluctant respect? Why are we bothering...
...that's just the beginning. In need of help with his book learning, Carl wins the support of the dubious local librarian (an appealing Aunjanue Ellis). Can love and marriage be far behind? Not in this movie. Will Carl attain his goal and Billy's reluctant respect? Why are we bothering...
...most urgent concern, Price said, is to attain a minimum standard of academic achievement...
...solace. The Son writes a basically autobiographical novel that puts him in contact with a girl who revives him to some extent. When the estranged father reads the book, it enables communication at last, fifteen years after the accident. It allows the father to name his grief and thus attain power over it. For the Son, his literary persona becomes the edifice on which he will reconstruct his shattered life...
Perhaps he is merely acting out the implicit logic of the 1933 film of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man, of which Paul Verhoeven's new movie is an entirely unacknowledged remake. Both Caine and Claude Rains' Jack Griffin find it easier to attain the ectoplasmic state than to return from it; both become increasingly megalomaniac as a result of the scientific process they embrace. The big difference between the two pictures is attitude. James Whale, who directed the first movie, made a kind of moral comedy of the situation--lots of befuddled English country types doing dialect jokes--but with...