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...physical action but rather because of latent energy. “Lymelife” is a dark satire, like “Little Miss Sunshine,” and its power draws from irony and moments of veracity.Despite the film’s reliance on clichéd movie gimmicks??an angsty adolescent romance, one parent’s infidelity, and a father-son antagonism—the emotional violence in “Lymelife” is strikingly affecting. No words are left unsaid, and no character is immune to the plague that is suburbia. Rather...
...boys wear ’em with irony suitable for the oughts. The song rocks hard—but there’s Finn’s nasal speech-singing drone squarely in the middle of the mix. The video, too, is stripped bare. No special effects, no gimmicks??just grown men dressed up as priests and pool boys, battling for the attention of a woman in front of an abandoned desert hotel. It is wonderful. And Franz, as Zorro, somehow makes that goofy porn ’stache work. The Hold Steady isn’t cool...
Despite his gimmicks??or maybe because of them—Vellucci became the spokesperson for a popular political perspective in Cambridge, and his antics reflect an anger on the part of residents towards Harvard. We are, admittedly, the most intolerable neighbors...
Faced with the daunting task of standing out in a crowd of nearly 20,000 Harvard College applicants, some students each year resort to gimmicks??a dozen roses sent along with their application, for example—to win over admissions officials...
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