Word: lingerings
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...long after the carols fade and the stars dim, the angels will still linger. In the past few years they have lodged in the popular imagination, celestial celebrities trailing clouds of glory as they come. There are angels- only boutiques, angel newsletters, angel seminars, angels on Sonya Live. A TIME poll indicates that most Americans believe in angels. Harvard Divinity School has a course on angels; Boston College has two. Bookstores have had to establish angel sections. In the most celebrated play on Broadway, Tony Kushner's Pulitzer-prize-winning Angels in America, a divine messenger ministers...
...Waleses run true to form, they will linger in limbo a while longer, the safest refuge from any new entanglements. In the longer run, it seems far less likely that Diana will kiss and make up with her husband than that she will soon be back in the arms of the press corps that can't live without...
Members of Tiger Inn said a few vestiges of male exclusivity linger, three years after it became the last of Princeton's 12 eating clubs to open its doors to women...
...story that is his own and Barhydt's invention is melodramatically overweening. Nevertheless, this movie works. In part, that's because Altman and Carver do share one important characteristic: short attention spans. They like to touch a moment and move quickly on. True to his title, Altman does not linger on any of his stories. Nobody is ever on long enough to grow tedious, and his linkages between stories (the screenwriters used color-coded file cards pinned to a bulletin board to keep them straight) are wonderfully inventive and set up very curious resonances. "I kind of wish it were...
That quality is Short Cuts' great redeeming grace. But it is Altman's refusal to linger on it sentimentally, his joyous appreciation of his actors' wicked inventiveness, and everyone's passionate, quick-witted desire to expose the vagaries of human behavior under quotidian pressure that simply sweep you up and sweep away whatever doubts you may have about its grand design. It is, finally, as a richly pulsating, hugely entertaining human comedy -- antic, wayward, glancing -- that Short Cuts bemuses, amuses and finally entrances...