Word: grand
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While this selective apathy of Harvard students is understandable and, probably okay in the grand scheme of things, not voting in state and national elections isn't. This is definitely bad apathy...
...library, despite its grand limestoneexterior, "has experienced a steady deteriorationwithin," Cline said...
...suppose I should take comfort in the spectacle of John Glenn rocketing off into outer space, which as a media event is being sold to us as the harbinger of a grand new age of elderly achievement and vitality. Still, for all of Glenn's outsize bravery--and narcissism--I suspect that as a subject of public fascination his flight is really just a more patriotic, sober and expensive variation of The Wedding Singer's rapping granny. It's one of the most unshakable rules of comedy: old people acting hip always get a laugh. And, yes, there is comfort...
...film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color-by-number style where a person's every wish is fulfilled? Cuba Gooding, Jr. breathes some life into the story. His energy actually recalls some of Williams' early comedic work, and serves as a constant reminder of what Williams lacks in What Dreams May Come. Jeremy J. Ross
Benigni believes in his film's title, and it is this optimism that makes the movie's unlikely concept work. At the Cannes film festival, where Life is Beautiful won the Grand Jury Prize, Benigni kissed Martin Scorcese's shoes when he came to the podium to accept his award and hugged members of the jury. Benigni is a major national celebrity in Italy; here, his previous films (mostly high-concept slapstick comedies like Johnny Stecchino) have never found much of an audience, and his attempts to break into the American film market (Son of the Pink Panther) have fallen...