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...Matching jerseys aside, Kopko is passionate about building an organization dedicated to, in his words, “empowering the next generation.” He believes that DormAid’s services allow students to focus on their priorities by taking care of the banal and time-consuming chores of college life, from laundry to room-cleaning. Kopko’s next plan is to make college affordable for everyone. His idea is to get banks to award credit to students based on their potential earnings rather than their parents’ current finances. His company gained infamy...
...with wild bears for 12 summers and was mauled to death by them in the 13th. But whether Herzog is filming auctioneers, televangelists or Saharan herdsmen, he always finds the drama. Sometimes he invents it, staging scenes to underline some point. He finds the standard documentary form boring and banal--"the truth of accountants." What he deeply believes in is "poetic, ecstatic truth ... that can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization...
...Nature is weeping in rain when they bury an honest person," sighed a middle-aged, ordinary-looking woman in the crowd. However banal, her words reflected the common mood. The grief for a journalist murdered for speaking the truth about war crimes in Russia had brought together a range of people who in past decades would never have voluntarily found themselves in the same company...
...involving story to tell, but the characters are so complex and the twists are so unexpected that it flies by faster than a Will Ferrell movie. The razor-sharp dialogue is particularly top-notch, which was quite unexpected considering Monahan’s previous credits include the incredibly banal Orlando action-flick, “Kingdom of Heaven.” Wahlberg, delivering his best work since the decade old “Boogie Nights,” has half of the film’s best lines.With more gore at its climax than even “Goodfellas?...
...Spamalot it's often hard to tell whether the stypefyingly simple lyrics and false rhymes ("So be strong / Keep right on / To the end / Of your song / Do not fail / Find your Grail / Find your Grail / Find your Grail") a joke on the banality of such songs? Or is it the real thing, a straightforwardly banal inspirational? Which is not to say that a song can't also be what it makes fun of - that a faux-inspirational song can't be inspirational and incorrigibly, addictively, sing-alongable. Remember that "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" became...