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...bishop suggested that the realm of biotechnology was especially dangerous, which reflects church teaching that destroying an embryo equates with murder. But the original mortal sins had as much to do with attitudes as with acts. Greed might lead to theft, lust to adultery, but the sin began in the heart. Yet modern research does not seem wicked to many suffering patients or the doctors who hope to cure them; the church's sin is their salvation. Likewise the accumulation of excessive wealth: leave aside the historical irony of this charge issuing from the Vatican. What do we make...
Imagine a world without CSI, NYPD Blue and Law & Order. That void was pop culture before Brooklynite screenwriter Malvin Wald conceived and co-wrote The Naked City, the noirish black-and-white 1948 film detailing a police investigation into a model's murder. (Famous last lines: "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.") Set on the piers and streets of New York City, the movie broke with depictions of cops as inept bumblers--and private eyes as heroic crime solvers--and set the stage for the now teeming genre of gritty police...
...anyone suffer,” he says. So he decides to kill her. Unfortunately, Cooper seems more like a former CIA agent embarking on a freelance operation than a troubled husband who is about to assassinate his beloved wife of two decades. The scenes in which Harry plans the murder are suspenseful and gripping, but fail to provide an insightful glimpse into the soul of a disillusioned married man. The plot twist turns “Married Life” into “The Bourne Ultimatum.” While Cooper’s performance is far from excellent...
...slip quietly and completelyinto a role. This ability is prominentlyshowcased in independent director IraSachs’ new film, “Married Life,” in whichhe plays Harry Allen, a gentle and romanticman who decides that the only way toleave his wife without breaking her heartis to murder her.“Cooper can disappear into a role andbecome the role, but there is also a historyof identification that people have withhim which also makes him a star, makeshim pop,” Sachs said in an interviewwith The Crimson, at which Cooper wasalso present. Cooper remained reservedthroughout...
...former regional councilman several times from behind, then fled the scene with a waiting driver. Though no claim of responsibility has yet been made, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesperson said the government was "certain" the attack had been carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA. Carrasco's murder would be the third committed by ETA since the organization officially declared an end to a cease-fire it called in March...