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Audrey Miller (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are both attractive, wealthy workaholic divorce attorneys who are, inexplicably, single. There is some brief explication of Audrey’s unattachment—her parent’s own messy union, fear of repeated mistakes and the like—but all this does very little to make her a likable human being. Her only friend/confidant in the world is her mother , an aggressively youth-defying woman (Frances Fisher), who refuses to answer to “mother” in public. What Audrey does have is a high-powered...
It’s testament to Square’s sharp design mentality that Crystal Chronicles solo is as enjoyable as much more ambitious games being released. Despite the smaller scale (a brief cutscene in which your caravan sets out from your hometown is all that gets things rolling), the world feels as instantly alive as in any full-fledged role playing game. The soundtrack comprises some of the most vivid medieval-themed music yet committed to the videogame medium, conjuring a distinctly Old World atmosphere. Each landscape is rife with textural and architectural detail that makes it seem like...
...addition, members expressed frustration that the brief timetable of the review precluded the possibility of everyone on the review being completely up to date and in agreement at all times...
...production of this difficult play is mostly smooth. The shifts in time are effected unobtrusively via a cuckoo clock and a brief change of lighting, designed by Ted T. Ashley ’06. Set changes are somewhat more obtrusive, due to the clunky three-piece stage, but fortunately rare. Not every joke has time to seep through, and some of the more dazzling effects (such as the large sections of limerick dialogues) are de-emphasized in favor of naturalistic delivery. However, much of the humor—particularly the political humor—proves successful, as when Carr innocently...
...Paul Wolfowitz, returned from Iraq with a balanced and honest assessment of what the allies had done right and wrong in the immediate postwar period. What was the next morning's Washington Post headline? WOLFOWITZ GIVES NUANCED ASSESSMENT OF IRAQ SITUATION? No. WOLFOWITZ CONCEDES IRAQ ERRORS, followed by a brief for the Administration's critics...