Word: mems
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Burn After Reading” unfortunately lacks. The characters are indeed idiosyncratic and neurotic. Linda’s obsession with “reinventing” herself, Harry’s food allergy anxieties, and Ozzy’s pronunciation of “memoir” (mem-WAH) are omnipresent. But this does not mean that they are complex. Even McDormand and Swinton, two exceptional actors capable of coaxing humanity out of the crudest roles, portray flat characters. McDormand does all she can with the material at hand, but Linda seems under-developed. Like most of the characters...
...Chad does have a plan. He's come across a disc containing Cox's notes toward a mem-wah, and he brings Linda into the notion of calling Cox to return the disc; maybe the grateful owner will give them a small reward. Cox misinterprets Chad's call as blackmail, and rears up to snort and neigh at the do-gooders. That brings Harry into the plot, and things devolve from there...
...money. After decades at the Agency, he has perfected the look and the attitude of a career spook. He wears a smart dark suit and that inevitable flourish of the house eccentric, a bow tie. Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the f-word - all these mark him as hailing from that generation and class of American spies who considered themselves more knowledgeable, hard-thinking and highly pedigreed than the politicians they worked for, yet who managed to miss...
...choosing Park Street, I was really looking for a church centered on Christ and the Bible,” she says. “I didn’t feel the same grounding in those two things at Mem Church, or at least not as strongly...
...amount of effort Jon puts into the things he’s trying to do to revive student life at Mem Church is truly remarkable,” Wintner says. “He spends a lot of time thinking about what will really appeal to students, or trying to stimulate discussion, or even meeting people at various places...