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...flat underside allows the force of a bomb to go directly up through the vehicle's floor...
...Laverty and director Loach leave no room for an actual narrative between the film’s many bloody scenes. The incredibly clichéd and predictable dialogue makes the characters even more robotic. A last-ditch effort to imbue the film with emotion in the final scene falls flat, as the monotony of earlier scenes has dulled the audience to a point where any emotion fails to register. A few small pleasures add to the drudgery of the film. Murphy, Delaney, and supporting actors Sabrina Barry and Liam Cunningham do what they can to breathe some life into their...
...children—and this reviewer—can’t help but start to wish that she would just hurry up and die. Despite the film’s humorous moments, death is an unmercifully tragic subject, and attempts to make light of it often fall flat. Decide for yourself whether you would voluntarily choose to spend two hours dealing with such disconcerting feelings. —Abigail J. Crutchfield can be reached at acrutchf@fas.harvard.edu...
...detailed IRS data on this tax swing aren't out yet, but there's plenty of other evidence. For one thing, while income tax revenues are up sharply, Social Security and Medicare tax receipts have remained flat as a share of the economy. "That tells you it isn't the average wage earner whose taxes are going up," says Steuerle. Another sign is that capital-gains taxes, paid mostly by the wealthy, doubled from...
...again, and focused it just on the curve of her back as it shaped her waist, then swelled into her buttock. When he looked at it with his eyes, it was pleasant but unremarkable. When he looked through the viewfinder, the same curve was bright and erotic, flat in a way, but alluring.” Just as Elena’s ass is transformed into the alluring in a new medium, the Iraq-oriented portion of Smiley’s narrative might have seemed eloquent in a newspaper editorial. But by stuffing unremarkable political arguments between her erotic vignettes...