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Solondz observes all this activity from an objectifying distance, very much the anthropologist trekking through the heart of darkness. He is, perhaps, too relentless in his grimness, too unforgiving. But there is a certain perverse integrity in his depressive's gaze, something weirdly compelling in his refusal to ingratiate himself with his audience. You keep waiting for him to crack a smile, offer a consoling gesture, express some softening sentiment. He does not. And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit...
...courted as a lucrative sub-adult market. They viewed the carefully polished romance of the Kennedy Administration during the years when they themselves were most passionate and idealistic. Then came Nov. 22, 1963, and the four days following, when the widowed Jackie stood erect, masking her grief under the gaze of a nation convulsed...
Sometimes when Jan and I are raft-drifting down the languid Orinoco, where the only sound is the mesh lining in Jan's flight vest wicking moisture away from her skin, we'll gaze up into the indigo Venezuelan night and thank the stars for our large, loyal customer base. Without you, there wouldn't be a J. Entitlements--and we'd be just two more lawyers without lives...
...choreography, which blissfully wove both graceful elegance and gutsy heart, was also a perfect compliment to Lovett's soulful and catchy music. The entire company glided and twirled across the stage with nothing short of perfection, but Pollyana Ribeiro and Viktor Plotnikov, in particular, captured the audience's gaze and adoration. Their enormous ranges of talent--from suave sophistication to "get-down" showiness and from poignant emotion to joyful enthusiasm--was a delight to behold...
...encourage and protect small, local banks and their communities and prevent statewide domination by the bigger banks in Little Rock. Branch banking was the single most important issue on the Twin City political agenda, because the bank was incorporated in North Little Rock. All it could do was gaze enviously at its rivals across the river in richer and more populous Little Rock...