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Technically, the movie looks by turns stunning and plain, whichever is appropriate. In some shots, Leigh prefers to give the actors full attention, ignoring all else (which perhaps led to the scene between Cynthia and Hortense in a restaurant that is completely devoid of waitstaff and customers). But in others, Leigh has composed the screen with the care of a painter: here, Maurice sits brooding in a bar such that we expect to see a glass of absinthe; there, a ringing phone becomes a demon in the dark as Cynthia nervously approaches...
Criticized as it was for a lack of Olympian drama, the Republican National Convention was not completely devoid of entertaining moments. This was, after all, a convention that denied speaking privileges to famously controversial ideologues but saw fit to invite swimsuit model and hemorrhoid-cream spokeswoman Kim Alexis to address delegates on the importance of God and family...
...perpetuating system, promoting a cycle of dependency. There are those who abuse it, but this new bill is not the way towards a much-needed change. Yes, people on welfare should get job training and work. Yes, they should be made independent. But Congress' talk of workfare is completely devoid of any mechanism to achieve these goals. How will welfare recipients magically acquire the skills needed to compete in a market where just 1 in 14 of those who apply for a fast food job get it? Where will they gain skills when such key programs as JOBS (Job Opportunities...
...fierce pharmacist, Tamara Bechina, who supports Zyuganov, had this explanation: "They voted for Yeltsin because they're benighted. They voted for Yeltsin because their bosses 'suggested' they do so." The village doctor, Lyubov Chuvikova, will also vote for Zyuganov in the second round. "Life has never been as devoid of hope...
...grounds of quality of scholarship (he notes pointedly that one of its members is Paul Verhoeven, whose credit as director of the movie Showgirls is far more recent than his Ph.D.), but on prior agreement on a goal. The goal, he maintains, is to discover a Jesus devoid of anything "mythical" or concerned with the actual possibility of a world to come, but reflective instead of the countercultural attitude favored by liberal academics. Although Johnson approves of some of the criteria the group applies to Scripture, he is derisive of its elimination of most long passages (members of oral cultures...