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...with a vulnerable heart. Bond has one, which he wants to give to his ally in the Le Chiffre charade, Green's sympathetic Vesper Lynd. It's a nice try, throwing romance into the stew, but after all its expert exertions, Casino Royale can't rev up the melancholy mood. Which is appropriate, for this is a Bond with great body but no soul...
...Fluff has been used for a multitude of purposes, this week likely marks the first time it will be featured in a romance scene between a dentist and a blossoming liberal feminist. The decision of director Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 to use Fluff epitomizes the lighthearted mood of her upcoming production of George Bernard Shaw’s play “You Never Can Tell.” The play, which runs from Nov. 10-18 at the Loeb Experimental Theatre—and is often called the pleasantest of Shaw’s volume...
...irrelevance.Bottom Line: “Stranger Than Fiction” is not your typical Will Ferrell comedy, but it’s not really much of anything else, either. Watch it only if you’re an Emma Thompson fan, or if you’re in the mood for mediocre dark comedy...
...Even after midnight, when the Secretary of State's office reported that McCaskill had started to pull ahead, the mood at McCaskill's campaign party remained cautious and tense. "You've got to remember that most of us have been in that exact same room, with those exact same people, and we've suffered some crushing defeats," Zimmerman said. "Even people who rationally knew Claire had won weren't going to let themselves believe until they saw her up on that stage, giving her acceptance speech." Which she did, flanked by her family, a few minutes after...
...listeners with Prokofiev’s music.The evening’s performance had a dazzling finish with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique.” The slow and somber beginning to the first movement gave no indication of the change in mood that was to come. In the second movement, orchestra members’ technical precision shone as they navigated through the difficulty of playing an irregular 5/4 time that was meant to be played with the style of a waltz in 3/4 time.The HRO appeared at its very best...