Word: casualness
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...that combinationis something that really drives themovie.”Cooper himself believes that his talentas an actor comes from focusing on themotivations that are implicit in each definingmoment of his character. “I’m tryingto make a distinction between focusedacting and what I call casual acting, andthere is a lot of casual acting in Americanfilms today,” he said.Cooper has often portrayed darkcharacters, and while Harry Allen is notoutwardly sinister, Cooper’s performanceilluminates the rationale behind his violentchoices. “It’s not qualities I liked inthe...
...James: I've been looking, for a long time, for way to have a casual interaction with my audience. And so I started an online service where I talk to my audience, kind of every day. And, in the process of doing that, we developed a lot of charts and profiles that are useful for online, and I've written a lot of articles that are posted online. And the book is a summary of some of the most interesting stuff from online...
...think it’s something they can prepare more for.” Students further praise the cyber-meetings with getmedieval (McCormic’s online identity) for giving oft intimidating office hours a more laid back tone: “It was very casual,” said Jenny D. Wanger ’09 of her Skype experience. “We were chatting and he was in his office and I was in my room.” Even though face time with Harvard professors can often be hard to come by, props to Professor McCormick...
...former businessman who himself rose from poverty, Lee made the centerpiece of his speech a commitment to move "from the age of ideology to one of pragmatism," and promised a set of measures to revive and liberalize the economy, not that the casual visitor to Korea would notice much sclerotic about the pace of development there. After a decade in which the old automatic warmth for the U.S. had seemed to cool - as a younger generation of Koreans, with no personal memory of the shared fight against communism, came to maturity - Lee promised to take his country's foreign relations...
...Greetings indie weirdos," host Rainn Wilson said to open the show. "Here come the first motherf-----s to present the first motherf-----g award." At the chronically casual Spirit Awards, celebs wear jeans, snack on popcorn on the blue (yes, blue) carpet, duck into porta-potties parked on the sand, and usually wrap up all their low-budget revelry by dark. But this year, as a party-starved Hollywood convened under a leaky tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., the annual frolic over independent film seemed especially, well, spirited. With quirky low-budget movies like Juno...