Word: friendships
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...movie, which, whatever its ostensible message of love between two improbable strangers, is a celebration of male camaraderie, and how guys need to do their guy stuff. That too is a theme with an honorable movie history: in the snappy bravado of heroes in Howard Hawks westerns, the desperate friendship in war-movie foxholes, the sass and sarcasm exchanged by slobby Oscar and his poker pals in The Odd Couple. It exists in real life, too, of course, in less appealing ways than Knocked Up lets on. The old cliché, of construction workers giving out with the wolf whistle...
...elaborate charade of feigned friendship between Putin and President George W. Bush, begun several years ago when Bush testified to the alleged spiritual depth of his Russian counterpart's soul, hasn't helped. The fact that similarly staged "friendships"--between F.D.R. and "Uncle Joe" Stalin, Nixon and Brezhnev, Clinton and Yeltsin--ended in mutual disappointment did not prevent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from boasting not long ago that U.S.-Russian relations were now the best in history. Surely it would be preferable to achieve a genuine, sustainable improvement before staging public theatrics designed to create the illusion that...
From the moment Remy enters, crashing, to the final happy fadeout, Ratatouille parades the brio and depth that set Pixar apart from and above other animation studios. The flood that separates Remy from his family is turbulent, terrifically choreographed, action-movie excitement. The budding Remy-Linguini friendship grows naturally, without clamor or shtick--quite a feat, considering how dense and gauche the young man can be. The tonal quality is pretty amazing for a CGI movie. The usual harsh plastic visuals are replaced by muted, luscious views of late-afternoon Paris...
...list of prettiest freshmen girls one night with another friend. “When we were done with the list though, he looked it over and then put her way at the top, half a page above everyone else,” Ho writes in an e-mail. Friendship blossomed, but relations remained platonic. Tau finally got together the nerve to ask Hsu out, but she turned down the former football recruit. She compared this rejection to his favorite sport: dating Tau then would have been “like football—you still love it, but it?...
...group to set up a lunch to discuss their summers. “I think only two or three people responded,” Lee says. Huang was one of them. After a long lunch in Huang’s house, Kirkland, the pair began a tentative e-mail friendship, bolstered by weekly trips to the same church. Lee realized that he was the same thoughtful junior who had e-mailed her the article earlier.One incident in particular became significant to the pair. Leaving the T together after church, the friends encountered two homeless men, one of whom offered...