Word: cues
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...need help interpreting the complexities of their characters and dialogue. Shailene Woodley, who plays Amy, feels the need to constantly brush hair away from her face and look away during trenchant conversations, perhaps in order to really drive home her apparent innocence and frustration (and, probably, to look at cue cards). Or how when Amy sits on the toilet and says “Life stinks,” someone felt it was necessary for her friend to add, “That’s kind of funny considering we’re in a bathroom...
...Dark Knight to be rereleased for OSCAR consideration in January. Cue backlash...
...titles like Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children and So Sexy So Soon. Most of these treatises have a similar thesis: young girls are sexually loose because they're aping behavior they see on TV or read about in magazines. And as if on cue, the media deliver a new 90210 with an oral-sex scene in the first episode; Gossip Girl comes back with billboards promoting it as MIND-BLOWINGLY INAPPROPRIATE ... and your daughter starts singing that alarmingly suggestive song about licking a lollipop...
...That supposition vanishes in a few minutes, as Renner slowly reveals the strength, confidence and unpredictability of a young Russell Crowe. The merging of actor and character is one of the big things to love about this movie. The other is that its tone, of steely calm, takes its cue from the character it so acutely observes. It's as if James was not only the subject of the movie - he made...
...unprecedented public show of defiance from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.). The party won a parliamentary majority in the first round of a general election on March 29, and its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, bested Mugabe in the presidential election, without winning an outright majority. That was the cue for the security forces and their allied militias to unleash a wave of repression which Human Rights Watch says resulted in the deaths of 166 opposition supporters and activists, more than 5,000 injured and tens of thousands of Zimbabweans displaced. Three months of that was enough to persuade Tsvangirai...