Word: bereft
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...cheerful little beeper continually eludes the inept but monomaniacal chasings of the pursuing varmint. Another less often noted but more sober pop-cultural theme is Steven Spielberg's obsession with children (E.T., Empire of the Sun, et al.) who as a result of either death or divorce are bereft of conventional parenting and wonder if they can successfully make it to maturity. It is the business of Catch Me If You Can to meld these two subgenres in a single film and see what happens--which turns out to be very amusing...
Marco (Dario Grandinetti), Talk to Her's other bereft male, is Benigno's opposite. He's a journalist who has fallen in love with a subject, a female matador named Lydia (Rosario Flores). Before her bullring goring, their relationship was the reverse of Benigno and Alicia's--relentlessly, often tormentedly verbal, because each was still emotionally involved with a previous lover. But now Marco sits mute and helpless by Lydia's bedside, articulating his pain only to his new friend Benigno...
...renowned cognitive psychologist plies the tools of his discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly false notion has produced a suite of modern ills, from modish parenting methods to the architecture of the Carpenter Center...
...fall of 2001, now bereft of both a job and his children, Muhammad's behavior had become increasingly bizarre. In October Muhammad and Malvo began frequenting Stuart's Coffee House. Muhammad took an intense interest in a redheaded street guitarist named Hannah Parks, 20, and her son Jazz, 4. For three weeks he badgered Parks for her phone number and address, telling her he was a record producer and inviting her to come to New York with him. "He knew a lot about music. He offered to buy me a drink and showed me a fat wallet of money," Parks...
Moonlight Mile's finest performance is by a virtual unknown, Ellen Pompeo, as a bereft soul who becomes Gyllenhaal's love interest. Forging a deep bond with the actor and the audience, Pompeo is lovely, funny, intense--star quality in the making. Now let's see if she and Hollywood know what to do with it. --By Richard Corliss