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...scenes and some lovely special effects and you're golden. I came away from this movie feeling cheated. Where was my life-altering experience? Did I miss something? At work the next day, I was shouted down when I ventured to voice my less-than-glowing opinion. I was devoid of romance, spiritually dead - basically, a philistine. And that may well be the case. But I want a little depth from my movies, intelligent dialogue, believable characters. And I didn't get any of these things from Ang Lee's much-lauded tale...
...stories, promise meaning if only considered closely enough. Here's a sample line that floats on the inside back cover: "When all these things we have come to love pass by, the world will seem empty and alone. How strange this place will be without my practicing eye. How devoid of charm that residue of foam...
...news and hoping that their loved ones are away from the front lines. I have talked to 18-year-old soldiers whose superiors order them to make agonizing but instantaneous moral judgments and live with the consequences if they make a mistake. I have seen hotels and restaurants devoid of tourists while their nervous proprietors bleed money...
This strain of Puritan denial of the graven image seems never to have quite vanished from American art. But how can you create a way of painting that is devoid, or at least as short as possible, of the delicious pleasures of light, shade, drama, color and suggestive texture--not to mention the primal infantile pleasure of smearing colored mud around on a virginal surface--associated with making a picture? The piety of this search, seen as an act of exemplary denial, is the ghost that haunts the machine of American abstraction--and the emotionless grids of LeWitt's work...
...Tigers masquerade a minor league hockey team as a college program. Its arena, the Colorado Springs World Arena, also houses professional teams. A laser light show greets the home squad as it steps on the ice. And the whole place was virtually devoid of students--from the grandstands to the pressbox, and some might unfairly...