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...scandalous activities it recounts. Its three screenwriters neither totally neglect nor totally embrace period language, so the dialogue has a pleasantly straightforward quality. Something similar can be said for Saul Dibb's direction. He's a relative newcomer to feature films, but he's neither overawed nor of a mind to be satirical about the stately homes his characters inhabit - or, for that matter, about their costumes, entertainments or taste in home furnishings. His manner is that of a reserved realist, and that keeps our attention focused where it should be - on the convolutions of plot and character. His actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keira Knightley as a Feisty, Cool Duchess | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy. A woman's spoofy fantasies of a perfect domestic life turn into the chilling symptoms of her descent into madness in Woman in Mind. A charming, well-intentioned "golden couple" manage inadvertently to destroy the lives of nearly everyone they come in contact with in Joking Apart. A holiday boat excursion for two landlubberly married couples turns into a fascist parable in Way Upstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn's Curtain Call | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...shine. Clients had warned him months ago that this year would be tough, he says, "but after that, no problem." A few weeks ago, though, Peralta noticed a change in the way his clients' feet moved. Customers began to say, "they can't talk right now, they have their mind on something else, or they just work on their BlackBerry," Peralta says. "It can be a pain for me, because when people are stressed or moody they tend to fidget and I have to grab their ankle to keep their foot still." In the days leading up to the Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street Meltdown: Global Fallout | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...when URI substitute forward Erkko Puranen snuck behind a well-advanced Crimson backline and scored the game-winning goal on a one-on-one breakaway against Harvard junior keeper Joseph Alexander.“[URI] sat behind the ball with most of their numbers and didn’t mind us having it,” senior co-captain and forward Mike Fucito said. “We had a few chances that we couldn’t put away. At the end they got a bit of a counter attack, [Puranen] got in behind our defense and slotted...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Falls to URI in OT | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...things in common with Lori Stern, an administrative assistant in Des Moines, Iowa, who lost her second job at a coffee shop when it closed. Stern went to her state's Republican caucuses in January, listened and left without voting. She still hasn't made up her mind, though she's now leaning toward Obama. "I'm very aware of what's going on and have paid attention, but I find it really hard to be trustful of politicians in general," she says. That sentiment is echoed by Beth Seidel, a factory worker in Cleveland who works the third shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maxed-Out Moms: The Battleground Voting Bloc | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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