Word: calme
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Fortunately, to keep us distracted, Mary Kay Place has a hilarious turn as the eminently calm and collected adult (further skewing things). As she repeatedly declares that she has never been wrong ("Knock on wood..."), we realize that if she were just a tad overdone she could well be a secret basket case. She delivers several of the most memorable lines of the movie, lecturing to her "captors," as she calls them while serving them her signature culinary creation, known simply and ominously as "Hot Dish...
Then there's the most baffling advice of all: Talk to it, in a calm, firm voice, of course. Supposing I could muster anything more impressive than a hoarse squeak, what exactly would I talk to it about? No one has ever suggested any topics of mutual interest to a middle-aged urban female and a 600-lb. free-ranging ursid. The Endangered Species Act, perhaps, and how the Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily erased about 4,000 species from the protected list last February? "Uh, I know I forgot to send in my Sierra Club dues, but, believe...
...consequences will almost certainly reverberate beyond this summer, beyond the besmirched beaches of New York. Early last Friday morning on Fire Island, Judy Hester walked down to the surf in front of her cottage. As she watched the sun peeking over the Atlantic, she saw that the glassy calm of the ocean during the past day and a half had disintegrated. In its place were "a lot of choppy, wind-driven waves." Unsettled by the sight, she returned home and phoned her sister Peg. Even before Judy could finish her description, Peg broke in to say she understood. "She thinks...
...fasten our seat belts and to bring our seat backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves) as statistically acceptable as ever, but psychologically harder now. The passengers on Flight 800 began a trajectory to the City...
Apple's lyrics have a sad, cloistered feeling to them. In Sullen Girl she sings, "It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion"; and in Carrion she imagines a broken relationship as a corpse lying between two lovers "like the carrion of a murdered prey...