Word: gracefulness
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...sewer fable about Remy, the country rodent who tries to fulfill his dream of making great food by befriending a jerky kid named Linguini in a Paris restaurant - is the most familiar face. It has the format (a journey of self-discovery and friendship) and virtues (grace of movement, narrative power) of Pixar, the pioneer foremost practitioner of CGI features. It has set pieces worthy of the old Disney masters, as when Remy, on his first night in Paris, scurries and jetes to avoid the heavy footfalls of pedestrians who'd scream if they noticed him. Though the story takes...
...hair. Thus does he manipulate Linguini's arms, legs, shoulders! We understand that the boy is the rat's marionette - but strings through his entire body? Whatever quibbles you may have, you would have to be an idiot of elephantine proportions not to appreciate Ratatouille's grace, humor and power...
Here's the sequence they say constitutes their wake-up call: the year 2006 witnessed Hamas's victory in Palestinian elections and Hizballah's summer war with Israel, both signs of a dramatic rise in Iran's influence; then came the coup de grace earlier this month, when Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip by force of arms, causing the collapse of the Palestinian national unity government. As the optimists now see it, the Sharm el-Sheikh summit on Monday has united Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas against Hamas (and its Iranian backer...
...wrote a piece called "All Thumbs," about what I saw as the devolution of film criticism, and cited the Siskel-Ebert TV show (not their other writing) as an example of movie reviewing being reduced to opinion. In the next issue, Roger responded to these charges with a dispassionate grace that acknowledged some of my points, took issue with others, but never stooped to stridency. (The exchange was reprinted in last year's Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Forty Years of Reviews, Essays and Interviews, which is the best introduction I know to his work...
...three hours before the Anya Hindmarch store in New York City's Soho was open for business on Wednesday, and already 20 fashionistas were excitedly waiting in line. "I can't wait" said Grace, 24, who didn't want to give her last name because she had called in sick to work to be there. By the time the shop opened at 11 a.m. the line was snaking down a city block with well dressed young women huddled under Chanel umbrellas waiting for their chance to buy the "it" bag of the season. Within three hours that bag, being offered...