Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your clone. We've all felt an adolescent's nervousness, and we've all felt youthfully eager, because these feelings are part of the generic human mind, grounded in the genes that define our species. It's just that we don't effortlessly transmute this common experience into empathy except in special cases--with offspring or siblings or close friends. And presumably with clones...
...cause of this clonal empathy wouldn't be that your inner life was exactly like your clone's (it wouldn't be). The catalyst, rather, would be seeing that familiar face--the one in your high school yearbook, except with a better haircut. It would remind you that you and your clone were essentially the same, driven by the same hopes and fears. You might even feel you shared the same soul. And in a sense, this would be true. Then again, in a sense, you share the same soul with everyone...
What will surprise everyone is the dry iciness, the burning coldness of Ormond's Smilla. Up to now she has trafficked largely in vulnerability--melting in Legends of the Fall, perhaps a shade too winsome in Sabrina. Here, she is all contained fury, except for the flashes of anger and contempt that burst without warning from the darkness within. It's not exactly diva acting such as we used to get from the great ladies of the movies' classic era. She achieves her effects with less obvious calculation. But like a Barbara Stanwyck or a Bette Davis, she takes...
...have to be careful, because the games are addictive. You get so into the team playing, it's almost like going out and playing football except you don't actually have to go out," Lin says, lending new meaning to the term "computer jock...
...other music on the program: an angular theme for strings and a long chorale that sounded best in the brass. Once again concertmaster Salley Koo was first-rate in her frequent solos, as were the winds when they inherited the string theme. Though the performance seemed shaky except for a cadenza-heightened, wonderfully careening climax, it was still convincing...