Word: deadly
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...Long's opening sequences a sense that her silences are willed attempts to protect herself from her own guilt at the crime - I don't think it spoils anything to identify it as a mercy killing - for which she has paid her debt. She is not quite dead, but she is in need of life support, and when she gets it, in minuscule increments, her response is extremely delicate - not quite hope, but not quite bitter rejection...
...huge screens decorated with icons of saints and martyrs that, while huge and impressive, are also as inexpressive as a child's doll. Without realistic human features or vivid detail through which to tell their stories, these icons demand that viewers use imagination to grasp the lives of the dead. The icons' elusiveness, in other words, allows for a stronger spiritual connection...
...still work on as many book jackets as you used to?I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm greatful for it. Viva le book! I often get asked, "Is the book dead?" It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound-it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information...
...racism further. Like any good movie worthy of an appearance on Oprah, the strength of “Bees” lies in the diversity and development of the characters and their relationships. Many of the sweetest moments happen when the vulnerable Lily tries to fill the void her dead mother and unloving father left in her life. “The Secret Life of Bees” deserves the most applause for the fact that director Gina Prince-Bythewood doesn’t overuse the cast. With such recognizable singer-cum-actresses as Latifah, Hudson, and Keys, I nervously...
...sundry haberdashery” that a 1926 article refers to—seem a bit too dapper and impractical for everyday wear. That is not to say that Harvard students are all about form over function; Barbour jackets offer quail pockets that are useful for storing the dead pheasant one may find on his way to class, and they make for handy and spacious pencil cases, too. While within the safe confines of the Harvard bubble, boys will be boys (or in this case, 40-year-old men), but on any other campus, these modern-day dandies would surely...