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This cautionary message was the second sent by Hegarty since construction began in August. What prompted the second notice, you ask? Had there been some incident? Had some poor Leverett girl or boy been—gasp!—ogled...
...double overtime Saturday, he obliged once again, badly striking a last-gasp 42-yard try after Brown’s offense finally stalled...
...Ralph Fiennes, as Justin Quayle, a British diplomat stationed in Kenya, is told that his young wife Tessa may have been killed while on a research trip with another man. As the camera holds on him, searching for a reaction, Fiennes doesn't conjure up a rage or a gasp. He doesn't gush a stream of tears or obscenities. He moves hardly at all. Yet alert viewers will see his pale face turn a shade ashen. They will watch his spirit sink as he struggles to retain propriety. Somehow a symphony of grief, suspicion and copelessness plays lightly...
Cohen, who put his Harvard credentials to good work with such masterpieces (gasp) as “The Fast and the Furious” and the aforementioned “xXx,” drops to new levels here. Despite giving Edi a full database of angry rock music to play while he zooms through the sky, we never really feel the action. The ring of fire explosion shown in the trailer doesn’t leave your heart pumping, and even a total building demolition seems lackluster. Though Foxx is trying hard to emulate Will Smith (with the hippest...
...more easily to be her mother's lover." As a gossip, Field has it both ways. Nabokov's grandmother Maria and Alexander II "must have been fleeting lovers." In one breath, this relationship could mean that the novelist's father was the Czar's bastard son. In the next gasp, the possibility is dismissed on the ground that Alexander had another mistress at the time. There is solid evidence that Nabokov was a randy young adult and had at least one serious extramarital entanglement. There is also the assertion that he was a spiritualist who believed in communication between...