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...theheart of the film. People have empathy forhim as an actor...He brings emotions to areally heightened place...and that combinationis something that really drives themovie.”Cooper himself believes that his talentas an actor comes from focusing on themotivations that are implicit in each definingmoment of his character. “I’m tryingto make a distinction between focusedacting and what I call casual acting, andthere is a lot of casual acting in Americanfilms today,” he said.Cooper has often portrayed darkcharacters, and while Harry Allen is notoutwardly sinister, Cooper?...
...quick masterly line, like a last fetish with which he didn’t know how to part, like the trace of a farewell kiss to nature. / He shouldn’t have shown it.” Hartwig’s use of uninhibited imagery wrought with implicit emotion creates a disquieting sensation. Her poems unnerve because they force us to realize the truths we have been hiding, even from ourselves. Hartwig suggests that, like the poem’s painter, men and women attempt to live life constantly behind a screen of pretense. By exposing the painter...
...attended by a core group of only half a dozen or so, took place over Labor Day weekend. "But he wouldn't do it," says one of the attendees. "Against all punditry, against the advice, against the history ... It shows he understood his persona and the qualities that were implicit in it." And he understood what he stood to lose if he changed his game. "If I gotta kneecap her," he told them, "I'm not gonna go there...
...story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...black cast, since race isn’t one of the forefront issues,” Johnson, a co-director of the Harvard production of “Cat,” says. “It will be interesting to see if they want to bring out the implicit tension that Williams knew was inherent in the play, or whether they will put a greater emphasis than is originally in the text.” Johnson and Richards, who writes for The Crimson’s magazine, chose to cast the important non-speaking role of the servant...