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...thrilled by the freedom and challenge of Manhattan. He responded by bleaching his hair blond, his trademark look for years to come. But his real transformation began three years later, when he discovered Los Angeles and refashioned himself into somebody even more California than the Beach Boys. So heartfelt and persuasive was his embrace of L.A. that within a few years his lambent paintings of lawn sprinklers, swimming pools and palm trees became part of everybody's mental picture of the place. Although he saw it all through eyes schooled in Piero della Francesca and Picasso, you could tell that...
...debut as Germany's new Chancellor, gave a well-received speech. (I particularly liked her homage to Ludwig Erhard, the architect of the post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder - when was the last time that he got his due?) Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, got a round of heartfelt applause - but for his many contributions to ameliorating poverty and misery in the developing world, not for anything he has done to shake the rich half of Europe out of its slumber. Two years ago, at the Time Board of Economists in Davos, Moisés Naím, editor...
...Pentagon’s payroll will certainly reinforce these types of suspicions. In an environment in which democracy and America are too often equated with suffering and aggression, Arab democrats already have an extremely difficult time convincing their fellow citizens that their ideas are formed from an honest and heartfelt conviction that democracy is the best path towards the future. Because of this Pentagon program, their fellow citizens now have an additional reason to believe that moderate and democratic ideas are foreign-funded rather than organically grown. Likewise, if moderate Sunni clerics are perceived as being agents of the occupation...
Unfortunately, the constantly reiterated relationship between Hayes (Evan Parke) the gruff, but heartfelt first mate and Jimmy (Jamie Bell, the “Billy Elliot” kid) is so bad as to verge on self-parody. Although it allows Jackson to develop the “Heart of Darkness” theme—Jimmy inexplicitly stole a copy from the New York Public Library—it loses the rhythm of the rest of the action. And yet, surprisingly, the film mostly works...
...finished product is a heartfelt autobiography, an earnest account of how Ruggiero, through her gifts on the rink, overcame a difficult childhood and transcended expectations on the way to international fame and success...