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...find sex, or even the aura of sexuality, in films by the current generation of pop-referencing auteurs. They swarm all over the violence in '60s-'70s grindhouse movies but are squeamish in showing the eroticism that once was crucial to the genre. The generation of "kids with beards," as Billy Wilder called Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, took their cues from a wide range of movie sources - Saturday-matinee serials, John Cassavetes improv dramas, European angst-athons - and if they got excessive, it was in kitsch and violence, not sex. Rodriguez got some puffs...
...other than to check who is there, with the comforting knowledge that I will almost always know someone. Maybe that’s an indictment of my social circle, but if the variety of people in the café is any indication, I am not alone in feeling its aura of sociability. Rather than gains in work, café dwellers—including those who purport to be “working”—have gained the valuable addition of extra social time, while not feeling the guilt of the “Harvard” student...
Appropriately, it benefits from an impeccable production. Gene Saks and David Mitchell, who respectively directed and designed the earlier plays of the trilogy, have renewed their contributions to the aura of heightened naturalism. Jonathan Silverman, who replaced Matthew Broderick as Eugene in Brighton Beach and Biloxi Blues and in the Brighton Beach movie, adeptly handles the dancing sequence, and he is exquisitely funny as the family listens to his and his brother's first radio sketch: he keeps covering his face, then peering out with mounting horror as he realizes that they realize that he meant...
John Randolph perfectly balances ferocity and fragility as the stubborn old socialist grandfather. Phyllis Newman must be likable, and is, as an aunt who was and is now guiltlessly rich. Philip Sterling has exactly the lost aura of a husband in search of something he cannot define and only recently realized he wanted...
...device that might be helpful in personnel testing, for example, might not be rigorous enough to be used in a criminal trial, where the standard of proof is higher. That's currently the case with the polygraph. But Farah is afraid that because of the high-tech aura of brain scans, people may put more faith in them than is warranted...