Word: aura
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...their relationship speeds along, Gibson relies increasingly on staple Hollywood techniques to create an aura of budding romance and sexual tensions. Galloping horses, sweeping green valleys and silhouettes in the sunset are all shamelessly put into play. They work, but it's unoriginal and it still sounds ridiculously premature when William confesses his love to Murron after having known her for what seems like a few days...
...Oliver Stone let this one get away? A gang of '60s rebels, an aura of righteous violence, the charge that fbi boss J. Edgar Hoover and the Mafia flooded America's cities with cheap drugs-why, it's all so lurid, it must be true. And if it's not, it can still be a movie...
...particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...
...Tommy Flanagan. To Jacky Terrasson, a fast-rising young pianist who made his Vanguard debut three years ago, what's important is "the vibes-all your heroes have been there before, and you get this incredible energy." Not even a jazz immortal like Sonny Rollins is immune to the aura. "You feel the history-it's spiritual," he says. And for Bobby Hutcherson, the brilliant vibraphone and marimba virtuoso, it's the audience that makes the difference. "They're the keenest listeners in the world," he says, "and they're right there with you on the same journey. When...
...Labs Cafe was going to put in storage. The House Committee provided a small percentage of the funds and Dining Services paid the rest. "It's amazing how much you can accomplish just by talking to Mike Berry," says Buchwald with a modesty which softens the mythic aura surrounding this so-called "fro-yo czar...