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...Music in L.A. You’ve undoubtedly seen Raise Your Voice before: this film is formula-driven, from start to finish. But no matter how many times Duff clips her lines or awkwardly over-acts her most intense scenes, the film somehow recovers. Despite its reliance on ham-fisted elements to a garner a reaction, Raise Your Voice pulls off moments where palpable, genuine emotion pumps from the screen...
...returns from the demands of the Third World to the luxury of the First. In the French Alps the author luxuriates in the pleasures of skiing and food, filing the pages with rich detail like the one about raclette, a cheese you melt and pour over sliced potatoes and ham. Bucolic vistas of snowy woods and mountains soon give way to sunbathers when, at the end, Thompson swings through the south of France and Barcelona. This final leg includes encounters with a number of other cartoonists, like Louis Trondheim and Charles Burns, who contribute cameo sketches of their...
...intimacy and privacy, being small enough for a big group to rent and big enough never to feel crowded. Another fine balance is between a smoothly managed hotel offering professional service and a family-run operation, which provides its guests with homemade olive oil, Jamon Serrano (the famous cured ham of the mountains) from the nearby village of Jabugo, and fine dining (the owner's daughter is an inspired chef). All this for the starting price of $185 per person per night, with breakfast included and special rates for people wanting to rent the entire house, which accommodates...
...intimacy and privacy, being small enough for a big group to rent and big enough never to feel crowded. Another fine balance is between a smoothly managed hotel offering professional service and a family-run operation, which provides its guests with homemade olive oil, Jamon Serrano (the famous cured ham of the mountains) from the nearby village of Jabugo, and fine dining (the owner's daughter is an inspired chef). All this for the starting price of €150 per person per night, with breakfast included and special rates for people wanting to rent the entire house, which accommodates...
...catty shipboard peanut gallery. His eldest son Sem (usually spelled Shem) is married to unflappable, pragmatic Bera, who gets stuck with a lot of the animal-gathering chores. "The problem with people who think that God will provide," she remarks tartly, "is that they think God will provide." Cham (Ham)--the most skeptical of the sons and the most sympathetic--is paired with mysterious, icy Ilya, a refugee from a northern land who subjects Noe's religious zeal to intellectual scrutiny. "Only a man's god," she snaps, "would show love for his creation by destroying...