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...Greta Garbo vanishing act may be appropriate for Simpson at this point: "He needs to stick with his kids and stay out of the limelight. If he's seen taking his kids to Disneyland, or at a black-tie party or having fun somewhere, it's just going to grate on America...
...might also grate on his children, who Simpson claims are his first priority. "The more commotion and instability there is in a child's life, the more difficult it will be for them to adjust," says Steven Kanter, a Cleveland child psychologist. "There's also the added factor of the death of their mother. That scar will never completely heal." Still, Simpson might well learn something about equanimity from the way one of his children is dealing with her pain. Juditha Brown says that after she gave the kids over to Simpson, Sydney called on the phone to console...
...Thomas Vincent (Justin Levitt) invokes the power of God to soothe his troubled parishoners. As he begs for God's mercy, he becomes irate, realizes the pathetic and hopeless predicament of his state. He yells his sermons to little effect, except to grate on the audience's nerves...
when cold, they try to find a warm air grate...
Granted, he had ten chapters--it's important. But I think you gotta get past that--really that's not why this story began. This story began when he dropped his thesis in the grate. And what made him do that? It was his cockiness. He is a bit compulsive, as one of them says. Moira's telling him wait until morning. What, do you think someone's gonna come in and steal it? I mean, your arrogance about the importance of these pages that it can't wait until morning. His arrogance when he turns around...