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They would soon meet with the media and talk about a lifeless season turned magical, Smith’s serendipitous, game-winning snapper and a 4-2 victory over Clarkson that delivered the school’s second ECAC title in three seasons...
...certain ambivalence about, say, Chairman Mao and his Little Red Book. Or, for that matter, movie madness and sexual triads. That standoffishness (or objectivity) intermittently marks The Dreamers, which is adapted by Gilbert Adair from his novel The Holy Innocents. But it also renders the film dispassionate, curiously lifeless, lacking the energy of either youthful commitment or a deeply engaged re-examination of the past. --By Richard Schickel
...most unique aspect of his music, however, is the way he injects emotion into his tracks, working from source material that would come across as lifeless in the hands of lesser artists...
David Lean directed this underrated epic—a love story set against the turmoil of early 20th century Russia—as his followup to the gorgeous but lifeless Lawrence of Arabia. Doctor Zhivago retains Lawrence’s social conscience and its pitch-perfect cinematography, but, unlike Lawrence, it also possesses the compelling characters and tense, terse plotting that so distinguished Lean’s masterpieces Bridge on the River Kwai and Brief Encounter. Stars Omar Sharif and Julie Christie could not be lovelier, but supporting players Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger and especially Tom Courtenay also have ample...
...once most tolerant city. The mark of the Sarajevan, Neven says, is "a mixture of so many things: a love of art; a love of other people; and an amount of sarcasm and irony." Sacco, in counterpoint, accompanies this mythic passage with a full-page image of a dark, lifeless, abandoned space between blasted out buildings. Through Neven's personal history Sacco gives us the inside story of fighting against the Serbs during the siege. This job fell to loosely associated, legalized gangs headed by popular warlords. Trained in the Yugoslav army as a sniper, Neven joins a paramilitary unit...