Word: frosts
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...script is by Peter Morgan, who won a plethora of prizes for The Queen and The Last King of Scotland and the Broadway play Frost Nixon, so you might expect something more than the puffy costume drama you get. Justin Chadwick, the director, is from TV, and apparently thinks that extreme closeups are as telling on the big screen as the small. No question that Portman's and Johansson's faces merit microscopic attention, but the film has a cramped feeling that turns every urgent, conspiratorial confidence into an italicized shout. That's a shame, because the movie has some...
...welter of exposition that Sorkin's has (along with many big laughs and even more subversive ones). Roberts gets to parade her luster in evening gowns and bikinis; she amps up the cunning warmth, and we note only in passing that in early middle-age she's starting to frost over into Glenn Close. Hanks, liberated from playing anguished do-gooders, unlocks a lot of raffish energy and gets that famous whine out of his voice. He makes Charlie a larger-than-life, conniving, lascivious ... all right, do-gooder, but one you wouldn't mind sharing a drink...
...Baird said it took her 40 minutes to get to her class—covered in frost...
...Alaska Klub has also endorsed a candidate. The group bases its endorsements on a candidate’s willingness to participate in the Polar Bear Plunge, an annual swim in the Charles River after the first snow or frost, said co-president Robert J. Gage...
...complete a paper. Siddiqi said that exam schedules can prevent Muslims from completing a religiously mandated midday prayer. Siddiqi added that as a neurobiology concentrator, he regularly confronts questions about his faith and often engages in discussions with faculty members about reconciling religion and science. Panelist Allison A. Frost ’08, a member of both the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Organization and Harvard Christian Impact, said that Harvard’s culture tends to emphasize the power of one person acting individually, rather than the need to submit to a higher power. Frost, who is also an inactive...