Word: clauses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...inhabitants of the occupied territories don't seem to be a laughing people. That's one reason Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention is a cure for nagging ethnic generalities. This Palestinian sort-of-comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure. From the Santa Claus who gets a cleaver in his chest to the Israeli cop who relies on a blindfolded Arab prisoner to give directions to a stranger, the film mixes the deadpan delight of Buster Keaton's classics with the elegant image framing of a Robert Bresson tragedy...
...Even when he tried to pour scorn in a sketch, the malice didn't always take. He drew the Broadway entrepreneur David Merrick, a particular bete noire, as a malevolent Santa Claus, complete with bell, book and candle. Merrick's reaction: he bought the drawing and used it as his Christmas card. Seen today, that sketch has an eerie resemblance to a certain artist's early self-portraits - for this Merrick looks like the younger, saturnine Al Hirschfeld...
...pursuing a path of justice even before the precise nature of a case is clear. "He's the real deal," says Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor who hired Spitzer, in his second year at the school, as a research assistant in the 1980s to help on the Claus von Bulow defense. "He has a creative and innovative mind, and he always wants to do what's right...
...mind the secularization of Christmas, and I don’t even mind its commercialization. For better or for worse, there is a commercial Christmas, represented by Santa Claus, garish Christmas lights, “A Christmas Carol,” jammed airports and shopping malls and scary claymation TV movies about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Commercial Christmas may not have much to do with the original Christmas, but it is a tradition in its own right, one that exists beside traditional Christmas as the star of a biographical movie exists beside the movie’s subject. What...
...Friday is more of the rambunctious same. It's Christmas Eve in the ghetto, which, the narrator tells us, is "the only place you can get robbed by Santa Claus." Cousins Craig (Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps), the victims of a burglary, have one day to raise the stolen rent money, so they take jobs as security guards in the local strip mall. This Elvz N the Hood is standard, vigorous fare with a terrific supporting performance by Katt Williams as a pint-size pimp...