Word: boys
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...resists emotion to build something greater, the rule of law. When he decides to forgive Guenevere, he declares, “This is the time of King Arthur, when violence is not strength and compassion is not weakness.” At the finale, Arthur speaks to a boy who promises to tell the king’s story after Arthur dies. Elated, Arthur concludes, “I’ve won my battle! What we did will be remembered...
...line at the bank and I'll see a woman in front of me wearing a skirt that's a little longer-length ... kind of falling below the knee, and a cardigan that she belts over. I think, Oh, the Michelle effect. There you go. It's right there. Boy, I bet cardigan sales have gone through the roof. I think sleeveless sheaths - we're seeing many, many more of them. I think she has kind of given everyone this freedom to mix up the pieces in their wardrobe...
...mood is dark. Death Eaters blight the skies, sent on their sorties by the fiendish Lord Voldemort, and in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a grim fate encircles one teenage boy like a noose around his soul. The adult he reveres most in the world has given him a mission to destroy a hugely powerful wizard, yet as he gazes in a mirror, the quivering face staring back at him belies his resolve to do the deed. It's a dreadful burden on someone barely out of childhood, in his sixth year at Hogwarts. Will Draco Malfoy...
...deepest kinship, man to boy, is Dumbledore's with Harry. From the start, when the dean of wizards puts a protective arm around Harry, to the probing trips they take through time and space, Dumbledore is Harry's true godfather - a role into which the great Gambon pours his craggy majesty and cello voice. One might wish that their visit to Voldemort's cave had the shuddering poignancy it does in the book, where a weakened Dumbledore tells his protégé, "I am not worried, Harry. I am with you." But their scenes together cast a lingering spell...
...final films, the boy will grow into the holy warrior. Those climactic works couldn't have a stronger prelude than Half-Blood Prince - an evocation, not leering but knowing, of adolescence under siege...