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...Like Pan's Labyrinth, where the young girl at the center of the film dwelt simultaneously in the horrifying reality of war-ravaged Spain and in a Wonderland retreat of fauns and goblins, The Orphanage zooms along on two parallel tracks. One is realistic, prosaic; it says that Laura's grief over Simon's loss has driven her to desperation and toward suicidal madness. The other, with acknowledgments to J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan, is fantastic, or poetic: it suggests that her grief has opened her to other realities, put her in touch with souls crying from the beyond for justice...
...film’s real problem is Charles Farmer. Farmer is neither despicable nor compelling; he’s not much of anything. His desire for space travel seems selfish. If the film had dwelt in this complexity, it might have been a different (and better) production, but it avoids conflict at all costs. He displays no keen intelligence, and the lackluster treatment of his time in space ensures that even his dream seems hollow...
Morison credits Leverett with having “founded the liberal tradition of Harvard University,” as recently noted in The Harvard Gazette. Leverett may have proposed a liberal education, but he remained true to his religious roots: his many biblical expositions illustrate a man who dwelt on profundity. Titles include “Africa always offers something new” and “Discussion of whether China was under the great flood,” among others...
...consider a reply. A brief session in the bubble with his advisers, followed by more discussions over a lunch of baked chicken, produced a revised set of talking points for the President to read at his afternoon session, ones that took into account Gorbachev's morning proposals and dwelt on the areas of potential agreement...
...hunger for this information," says Dorothea Johnson, who runs the Protocol School of Washington in the nation's capital. In the past three years, she says, the number of people signing up for her children's classes has quadrupled. But unlike the mini-finishing-school lessons of yore that dwelt on cutlery and curtsies, the curriculum nowadays stresses social skills and common courtesy. Honaker coaches kids on the proper way to greet adults ("Give me a firm handshake, look me in the eye, smile and say something nice") and quizzes them on how to be considerate ("Look. I just dropped...