Word: earlied
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...second. "I grew up in Texas," McGrath says, "and my friends and I used to just kill ourselves laughing when movie actors did Texas accents. People always sounded like the Clampetts. But Gwyneth did the most impeccable Texas accent in Flesh and Bone. She has an amazing ear. And, of course, everything else is perfect. Her speaking voice is a beautiful instrument, and she photographs like a dream--all the light goes to her on the set, and she seems to absorb it and then give it back...
...than I thought, or perhaps wanted. It's like living in a small town and then moving to New York City. You thought all your life that your old town was the world and that the kid who lived on the corner of the street and had a pierced ear was some breed of mutant. Then you go to New York City and realize the true meaning of perforation--and how you'd like to sit down with that kid now and talk about normal things again...
...series, "The Greeting," is a break-through exploration of the power of a single, wordless gesture. In this video, presented simply in an empty room on a conventional screen, two women are approached by a third who embraces one of the women and whispers something in her ear. A few seconds of film is stretched to twenty times its original length, and every subtle, lovely element of the total motion is exposed to attention our impatient eyes would typically be unable to observe. The piece is simple, monumental, beautiful and holy...
...cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
...organized opinion-molding and influence-mongering elites of the world," says political analyst Kevin Phillips. "The principal business in Washington is not so much decision making as influencing decision making." It's not the urge to hold power but the desire to nuzzle it--to whisper in the right ear or lead "the conversation" that the powerful attend to--that gives Washington its distinctive social landscape, where Arianna Huffingtons bloom along the edges of Gucci Gulch...