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...Fiennes performance is a miniature device with intricate moving parts. Movie directors often want their actors to "go bigger." Fiennes goes smaller--and inside. His onscreen speech is a mix of concealments and confidences, of whispers in a cave or under the covers. And he's not speaking softly just so you will be startled when he explodes. In a crucial scene he's less likely to shout than to stare or slouch--or sob, as he does, quietly but with naked intensity, in The Constant Gardener. It's his way of inhabiting all sides of someone like Justin...
...days or less. That's good news for employers, who will save about $54 billion. But that's not so great for the travel- and-leisure industry, which is scrambling to reverse the trend. Expedia, for instance, is offering discounts on what it calls destination vacations--planned adventures like cave diving or whale watching. Universal Orlando theme parks is so concerned about the vacation deficit that it has created a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign called Have a Life, featuring mock executives thanking workers for sacrificing their vacation for the bottom line. Many hotels are touting luxury beds, Internet service...
...fact is that the war on terrorism is a very long war. It is not decided by a battle here or there. It would not have been won by stopping in Afghanistan and spending the rest of our lives going cave to cave looking for bin Laden and his henchmen. Kill him and shut the cave, yet jihadism would continue...
...undeniably good Step in the Name of Love (Remix) even proclaims himself "the Pied Piper of R&B." It's possible that Kelly doesn't know the pedophiliac connotations of the reference (in the fable, the piper leads the town's children into a secret mountain cave as revenge for getting stiffed on the exterminator bill), but one surmises he wouldn't stop singing...
...Michigan woods in early Hemingway. Perhaps no painting has ever conveyed a hunter's anxiety better than Hound and Hunter, with its flustered boy in the dinghy trying to get a rope on a shot stag's antlers before its corpse sinks, lurching to and fro in a cave of forest darkness and disturbed silver ripples...