Word: breaths
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...shows an awareness of the Net's prime difference from all other media: it offers two-way transmission of ideas. Communications by the church have always been one way, and it doesn't need the Net for that. Will it listen now? Let us pray but not hold our breath. SEAN O'CONAILL Coleraine, Northern Ireland...
This version is strongest where most shorter productions fail: in Act IV, where, in Hamlet's absence, Ophelia goes picturesquely mad while the star gets to catch his breath. Winslet's decline is an edifying horror show; Christie gives all her urgent glamour to Gertrude's one big speech; and Michael Maloney's subtle power as Laertes makes him a kind of good twin to the melancholy Dane. Hamlet, after all, hates his stepfather because he seduced the lad's mother and killed his father. But Laertes has similar reasons for hating Hamlet, and here he has the same carnal...
...cast is mostly excellent, with Crystal a nice surprise as the gravedigger and Richard Briers rescuing Polonius from amiable fuddery; this old man is as much plotter as plodder. If there's a lapse, it's in the central performance. Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster. But he can't so easily make it poetic...
...steam toward the end, however, as the video ends with several unidentifiable creatures springing out of an acorn spaceship (which makes as much sense as anything else in the video) and dancing for the final 30 seconds. The relative immobility of the scene allows the viewer to catch her breath and think “that was completely nonsensical...
...cards between one another, and then bet on who held the most valuable hand. Traditional poker mavens thus depended upon their ability to analyze human expression, a skill made obsolete by keyboards and screen names. A lip twitch there, a cleared-throat here, and a sharp intake of breath from competition to the left—these were the precursors to quick uploads and winning odds. Bluffing was an art; graphic animation counted for little. Strategic smiles meant more than statistical breakdowns...