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...Hair, makeup, wardrobe and the lighting department don't do Zellweger any favors either. She's dressed in tight suits and padded bras that highlight the incongruities between her puffy face and her tiny frame, a sort of disturbing Nancy Reagan effect. The movie seems to put her on display just to toy with her, often in tight close-ups. Zellweger used to have such a distinctive, offbeat type of prettiness, but in this movie she often looks as though she's wearing a sloppily manufactured Renée Zellweger mask...
...filmmakers will argue that the real issue here is the terrible plight of the Burmese people. In one sense, they are right. In a clever sequence, we are watching the annual military parade when the frame freezes and then quickly rewinds through recent Burmese history. First, it is comic - the regime's troops, marching backward - then tragic. We glimpse survivors of Cyclone Nargis, dazed and clad in rags; refugees fleeing the smoldering remains of houses laid waste by Burmese troops; blood-drenched protesters on the streets back in 1988, when the last democracy uprising was snuffed out and thousands were...
...occasion of the publication of Terrorist. It was a pleasure to interview him. He was one of the world's great talkers, and he lavished the same care on the answers he gave to a nervous journalist as he did on his work. I caught him in a nostalgic frame of mind, thinking about the vanished America of his Pennsylvania childhood, and as always, he turned his bright jeweler's eye on the nostalgia itself...
...down-to-the-wire thriller against Boston University. With the overall team score tied, 3-3, the final point came down to freshman Samantha Gridley’s match in the No. 5 singles position. The freshman dropped the first set, 7-6, but then forced a decisive final frame by taking the second set, 7-5. Despite a hard-fought battle, Gridley ultimately fell in the third-set tiebreaker. The defeat gave the Terriers a 4-3 victory over the Crimson. Although the loss was not the desired outcome, Harvard displayed potential in its showing, providing the Crimson players...
...fell in Army’s favor, as the hosts took three straight bouts and a commanding lead. By the time Picarsic (3-2) took the mat, Harvard already trailed, 21-3, but the senior grappler maintained his focus.After building a commanding 7-1 lead to start the third frame, Picarsic scored two takedowns to close the match and earn a major decision, 12-2, for the first time this year.“[Picarsic] kept up the pace, always pushing for points,” Weiss praised. “He’s been doing a great...