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...guess is that Apatow recognized this quality in Rudd and didn't know how to build a movie around it. Some of the leads in his movies dwell in a state of barely suppressed panic (Carell, Cera); but most are guys comfortable in their own skin, however flabby or unsightly it may be. I'm not good-looking, the Rogen-Hill-Segel men say, but I can make people laugh. And in a comedy, funny is sexy. Rudd hasn't that gift (as is obvious in the video-game riffing he does with Rogen in Virgin: his younger partner...
...handful of these sections seem to leave Jonas’ story half-told. Chapters that deal explicitly with the death of Margurete, Jonas’ wife, why she may have been murdered, and the subsequent trial each seem like subjects too sensitive for the source of narrator to dwell on. The professor, our transcriber, writes, “Suddenly she (the secret source) falls silent. She has never done that before. Stayed quiet for so long… All stories deal with what cannot be said, cannot be written.” Instead, the story moves on to various other...
...Obama did not allow his party to dwell on finger-pointing. He kept talking through their applause, forcing them to return to their seats. A coach, after all, cannot lead a team divided. He told the country's leaders, Democrats and Republicans, supporters and opponents of his presidency, that he knew "every American who is sitting here tonight loves this country and wants it to succeed." He continued, "That must be the starting point for every debate we have in the coming months, and where we return after those debates are done. That is the foundation on which the American...
...Obama's presidency - not so much optimism as confidence, the sense that he was not only steering the presidency, but loving the challenge of it. It was the quality that distinguished Franklin Roosevelt's public persona, guided by the motto that F.D.R. had in his office: "Let unconquerable gladness dwell." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
...after winning the championship the previous three years.“I can’t get back tonight and I can’t get back last night,” Penn coach Glen Miller said. “It doesn’t do any good to dwell on it, you have to try and evaluate things and get better.”—Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...