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...nature of the syndrome is that as you go through college, you occasionally come across a stumbling block on the way to your goals—a bad grade, an internship rejection, a nasty break-up—fill your favorite disappointment in the blank. These disappointments unleash the self-esteem gremlin, who mockingly says, “Ha! I told you that you would fail. Doesn’t [disappointment from above] show that you really don’t have what it takes? Face it-you’re just not good enough...
...intensity. After Fenton’s father tells of his divine task, Fenton responds with understandable skepticism that eventually decays into abject panic and hardened frustration as the body count mounts. When Dad excessively punishes Fenton for insubordination, O’Leary invests in his tortured son role a blank-faced, darkly brooding quality that is wonderfully mature considering...
...cruel Israeli invasion of the occupied territories continues, atrocities emerge daily. White Israeli soldiers destroy refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades. The army rounds up civilians by the hundreds with new evidence of point blank executions. Troops invade hospitals, preventing staff from treating their own patients. Journalists are intimidated to prevent them from bearing witness to these crimes, and an entire population continues to be suffocated and assaulted. Never before has the veil concealing the true nature of the prevailing relationship between Israel and the Palestinians seemed thinner...
...Crimson could not carry that momentum through intermission. Cornell controlled play from the opening faceoff in the second half, pulling within one when Greenhalgh scored his first goal with 12:16 remaining in the third, converting at point-blank range...
...Garcia is the first movie he’s worked on that is on track to actually get produced, Silva is not daunted by the difficulties of writing for Hollywood. “I already have a film to work with, so there’s less of that blank page effect,” he says. “And I like the potential that it has. I’m excited about it.” Nor does Silva fear that his script will be corrupted by Hollywood commercialism. “I’m working with...