Word: distractedness
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Amy, the disaffected child (Anna Paquin), is moping around the farm, mourning her dead mother. Tom, Amy's distracted dad (Jeff Daniels), is in his workshop creating really strange metal sculptures--basically, if guiltily, ignoring his daughter. In the barn, though, a gaggle of orphaned goslings is beginning to hatch...
Morris: A group of aides, including Don Baer, David Shipley, Bill Curry and Mark Penn, sat around a big computer screen with Michael Waldman at the keyboard. I would give the speech as it came to my mind, and people would pounce on it and edit it as we went...
Fortunately, to keep us distracted, Mary Kay Place has a hilarious turn as the eminently calm and collected adult (further skewing things). As she repeatedly declares that she has never been wrong ("Knock on wood..."), we realize that if she were just a tad overdone she could well be a...
After a decade or so of nonfiction best sellers portraying the directors of large corporations as freeloaders or pawns of the ceo or distracted celebrities or public relations ornaments or assorted varieties of windbag, there is something almost touching in the fact that so many Americans still believe corporate directorship...
Sandra Bullock provides a couple of surprises: first, that we don't see her character so much as her top billing would indicate; and second, when we do, we wish we wouldn't. Trying through rushed, distracted delivery to evoke the smart-aleck single-mindedness of her law student character...