Word: discernment
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...middle of the show loses speed as director Chuck Russell (The Mask, Eraser) runs out of creative ways to kill his victims. Many of the scenes, in fact, are shot with staccato cuts and scenes where the camera moves so jerkily that it is often difficult to discern who kills who. This is especially true in the digitally mastered shots, as Russell attempts to make up for poor quality digital rendering by swiftly cutting back and forth between the digital creatures and the rest of the action...
...desire of two unbalanced individuals to do something tragically drastic to prove their love. Hosfield and Goldin play it totally straight, refraining from descending into caricature, rendering “Unworthy of Your Love” a powerful piece and leaving it entirely to the audience to discern the irony...
There was a brilliant, if gimmicky, solution: a synchronized series of looped video animations projected onto a wide screen quickly became the center of attention, and the music its soundtrack. It conveyed something that’s impossible to discern in Takemura’s albums. If Calix’s glitch symphonies were ones and zeros come alive, Takemura’s playful sonic freak-outs were the machines themselves speaking. Blocky polygon men sang along with the disembodied voices; kids frolicked with pixelated woodland creatures during musical lulls. Seemingly senseless static became a conversation between two clay figurines...
...racial connection is clear: one can discern the same disregard in the way Brett treats Lincoln and Jane; but a clear connection between the male treatment of both white women and women of color is conspicuously absent...
...fast. It is the best performer in the family-controlled conglomerate that spawned it, the Samsung Group. Some analysts complain that the family of founder Lee Byung Chul, who died in 1987, still treats Samsung Electronics as a personal fief and that murky financial reporting makes it hard to discern the company's true profits. But neither worry has stopped investors from pouring money into the stock, which is up 65% over the past 12 months. Korea's consumers are spending more than ever, and they just happen to be among the most wired people on the planet, with easy...