Word: gracefulness
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...detective stories, than with Don, who sits alone in his upscale home, placidly depressed and expecting nothing. The film is structured as a series of diminishing returns. His first encounter, with Stone and her flirtatious daughter Lolita (Alexis Dziena), has pretty swatches of uncomfortable humor and a touching grace note, when Stone impulsively bows to kiss Tom's hand. The second episode also has its moments, as Conroy and her Babbitty husband (Christopher McDonald) leave Don more flummoxed than ever. But each meeting is increasingly shorter, with the third (Lange) perfuntory and the fourth (Swinton, looking great in a dark...
...shadows of guilt hanging over Manderlay are longer and darker than in the other films, and speak to a crucial American social crime: the imposition and perpetuation of slavery. The second of a 1930s trilogy that began with Dogville, Von Trier's new work again has the redheaded Grace as its focus. (There she was played by Nicole Kidman, here by Ron Howard's daughter.) She comes to Manderlay, a plantation that has only now, 70 years after the Civil War, with the death of its owner Mam (Lauren Bacall), freed its slaves. But do they want to be free...
...Trier always has a few shocks up his sleeve: a banquet in which whites put on blackface; the violent taking of Grace by Timothy (Isaach De Bankole), the most rebellious of the ex-slaves. The director is also fond of parading America's old crimes, most explicitly in a closing montage of lynchings and other rank injustices to African-Americans. But though the film uses Dogville's technique of presenting all the action on a single stage, with no realistic sets and few props, it hasn't the kick or the sweep of the earlier film. Von Trier...
...Scrubs -but not until later in the season, after star Zach Braff shoots a movie. Fear Factor, that offal-laden young-man magnet, is off the fall schedule, but will come back -presumably after one of those surefire hit shows is canceled. Next year is the last for Will & Grace, and The West Wing will probably be term-limited out at the end of next season...
...reinforce the slender structure or move it further from the street. Experts say the design changes could delay the completion date of the building from 2008 to as late as 2010. Aesthetes worry that the best countermeasure for truck bombs-concrete, and lots of it-will ruin the airy grace of the original tower design and perhaps preclude some of its more symbolic features, like the planned 1,776 feet height and the spire that echoes the Statue of Liberty...