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Having behaved on camera their entire lives, the Olsens know how to counterfeit emotion, though not, yet, how to convey it. Then again, De Niro and Streep would have trouble bringing to life an inert mix of farce and sentiment that ends up being both exploitative and bathetic--kiddie corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Olsens in Bid to Buy Disney | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...result, however, is a pretty strong argument for steering clear of the local movie house. Goodbye, Dragon Inn is unbearably inert. It's not so much that Tsai has neglected to craft a good story and characters; that's always been his style. What Goodbye lacks is exactly what Tsai's far superior 2001 film What Time Is It There? had in every frame: authentic feeling. Instead of the emotion that suffused the earlier movie?however artfully repressed?in Goodbye we get minutes-long still shots of an empty theater. There are occasional flashes of Tsai's skill for silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exquisite Tedium | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...that took 17 years. If only it had been worth the wait. That war remains the great hinge on which 20th century America turned. The men and women who fought it deserve a monument commensurate with what they endured and accomplished. What have they actually got? Purest banality, an inert plaza dressed with off-the-shelf symbols of grief and glory. This is more than a missed opportunity. It's one more misfortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A Monument to Blah | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

This is probably why I find kindred spirits in DJ mixes and twelve-inch singles as opposed to albums nowadays; because I treat music like food. Here the commodities really are commodities; they’re not commodities selling themselves as art. Paradoxically, they’re not inert; far from it—dancefloor music is alive, forces you to listen with more than your ears. What corner you inhabit depends on how you feel. Why else would U.K. grime artists like Dizzee Rascal and Wiley Kat have come up with the inhuman beats they rhyme over? They grew...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Living for the Future | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

...should be abandoned,” Hyman said. “Their clinical trials’ data suggests that debriefing is at best ineffective or inert. There is one study that suggests that it may even be harmful...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U.S. Ill-Prepared for Effects of Attack | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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