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...mere three months ago, the situation was vastly different. When Harvard Law School's Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Duncan M. Kennedy spoke at the campaign's rally in late February, he was in a distinct minority of faculty who publicly supported the campaign...
...never suffocates them. And in stories that address a limited geographical area and a limited range of settings, and which draw from the same source of tragedy, it is one of the strongest tributes to Proulx' craft that the human characters, and their various tragedies, remain discrete and distinct. Perhaps there is one common tension, the big sky pushing down with an almost unbearable weight, but each of the protagonists stands or falls alone...
...never suffocates them. And in stories that address a limited geographical area and a limited range of settings, and which draw from the same source of tragedy, it is one of the strongest tributes to Proulx' craft that the human characters, and their various tragedies, remain discrete and distinct. Perhaps there is one common tension, the big sky pushing down with an almost unbearable weight, but each of the protagonists stands or falls alone...
...essentially Friel's lack of self-consequence that makes her so appealingly distinct from other British actresses--and many American ones too. "Anna doesn't have stage-school technique," notes her countryman Patrick Marber, writer and director of Closer. "She's very natural and all from the heart...
When the film isn't twinkling with glitter, it does manage some Shakespeare in Love-style gritty subplots. For all its dedication to the original version, Hoffman manages to imbue this retelling with a number of strangely random eccentricities. From pixies who bear distinct resemblance to Madonna and E.T. to a scene in which a catfight descends into Victorian female mud-wrestling, the film tosses enough curve balls to satisfy those who miss their Stoppard...