Word: blossoms
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...from head to crotch. Other Max attributes were once the prerogative of heroic males: a gravity, a radiating inner ache; a past and a quest. She's lonely on top, flirting with potential mates but searching for a mother. In this sense she is a big sullen sister to Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls. They too are the spawn of a biological experiment. (They also levitate, like the "Tiger" women.) And though the show is perky, and its pace frenetic, the Girls carry the burden of others' expectation. When things go wrong, the Townsville adults chant, "Your fault...
...Gorbachev was writing about the economy, not about science. Despite Stalinist totalitarianism (which often interfered with science and scientists), science continued to blossom in the Soviet Union. They beat us into space and in countless other areas of science. And Western scientists always engaged with their Soviet counterparts on a plane of mutual respect quite inaccessible to their governments. Scientists, in whatever society, are a quirky lot, motivated by enigmatic incentives comprehensible only to their own kind. Stock options and corporate bonuses are no more fundamental to the achievement of scientific advance than were Soviet medals and patriotic exhortations...
Soderbergh reluctantly hung up his baseball cap. He had another gift, however, and that was about to blossom. By the time he was in high school, Soderbergh was taking classes in the film department of Louisiana State University (where his father taught education). But when it came time to enroll in college, he opted instead for on-the-job training, editing pieces for the wacky 1980s TV show Games People Play as well as making his own short films and a Yes concert film. In 1989 he released his first feature, and the movie gods smiled...
...operation, is reminiscent of the best work of Michael Mann. And yet the finale is also the only point in the movie in which Hackford the storyteller is truly allowed to cast his spell-too much of the film feels curbed, dramatically and emotionally, to allow the story to blossom into the white-knuckle suspense ride that it so staunchly demands to be. The game of hostage negotiation is clearly a high-wire act, yet everything is so laid out that we never get the sense that things are volatile, that they could explode at any second...
...separating them from the likes of Jernigan, whose solo set I stick around for before heading home. He opens with the bebop standard "Jordu," effectively blowing away about 99 percent of the field, then satisfies the country contingent's needs with terrifying versions of "Black Mountain Rag" and "Orange Blossom Special." I smile in idiotic bliss...