Word: flittings
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...neglect the darker side of human adaptation, either. As one corrupt leadership is swapped with another, the hypocrisy trickles down. A neighbor who has always had a spot on her cheek now claims she got it from a bullet at a revolutionary demonstration. Another woman who used to flit round the neighborhood in miniskirts suddenly dons a full-length chador. The war with Iraq begins, but the cancers within seem almost as toxic as the bombs outside. Satrapi's mother puts up black curtains to prevent the neighbors from spying on their illegal card games. Satrapi is struck...
...Palace on Wheels, India's grande dame of steam trains and the most romantic way to chug through the desert state. Due to launch this year, the latest plan to pry open travelers' wallets aspires to a whole new level of decadence. The idea: a supremely luxurious seven-day flit through history. They call it the Palace...
...Fermata)--Baker returns to the delightfully discursive, observational voice he used in his first novel, The Mezzanine. But in A Box of Matches this voice has acquired a husky resonance it never had before, a basso register that hints at dark, existential depths. Daydreams of suicide flit at the edge of Emmett's consciousness, intimations of illness, echoes of past pain...
...couple of Camerons, Diaz (on a subway) and Crowe (on a bus), flit through Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg--who also shows up in Goldmember. Men in Black II enlists Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart--aha, they are aliens! In Mr. Deeds, Al Sharpton delivers a rappin' elegy and John McEnroe teaches Adam Sandler how to (mis)behave in New York City. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal features bits by Brad Pitt and his Se7en director David Fincher...
...acting that lifts this modest material. Jeon, in her third film, makes her discordant ? and physical comedy make the mutual attraction credible and funny. Like many Korean movies, the actors flit effortlessly from unabashed slapstick to unconsolable morbidity...