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...remarkable demonstration of "living in uncertainties", the Boston Cecilia performed Bach's St. John Passion with grace and skill, singing with feeling without appearing tactless. Brave enough not to gloss over the anti-Semitism of the piece with a simple program note or disclaimer, The Boston Cecilia and All Saints Parish presented the panel discussion, "Art and Anti-Semitism: Perceptions of Anti-Semitism in the St. John Passion...
...this gloss, Moore comfortably muttered, "I don't think I've satisfied him," and moved on to the next question. Moore seems proud of his minimal educational back-ground, as if it gives him some humanistic understanding of the working class, which professional analysts cannot see. This may be, but there is a lot of analysis that Moore apparently cannot see either...
...real tough cookie with a long history." Red-gloss lipsticked, black shades-wearing, teased hair-sporting, '80s Super Diva, "put up her dukes" and "let us get down to it" with her pain-rock. Her "best shots" hit below the belt every time! Thanks...
...special occasion, do not realize that "gusset" and "crotch" mean the same thing. Despite the goofiness of it all, there is no denying here in these two male-oriented porno/home-shopping sites, we have an essential principle of noir--the conflict between the rough and the pleasant, between grit and gloss. It is a symbolic battle between the seedy underworld and the conventions of society, a clash between the deviant and the traditional. Do real heroes wear leather or lace...
Appropriate because Francie never fully realizes how this imagery has eased him across the line separating delinquency from criminality. The scariest thing about this difficult, duplicitous movie is the invincibility of Francie's ignorance on this point and the vivid gloss this offers on our unending concern about the power of crud culture to bend vulnerable minds to its heedless will...