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Style. It’s a noun (“Britney Spears has style”), a verb (“she styles her own hair every day”) and occasionally an adjective (“Girl, you are stylin’ today!”). It’s even a profession (“Miss Spears is with her stylist right now”). Here in Cambridge, the populace is not exactly known for its innovative sense of style. Even the architecture is too old to be hip. But nonetheless, as FM discovered, Harvard Square...
...when his ego takes another sandbag, the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim into avenger, the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols compliments Roberts as "the CNN of actresses: on the close-up you actually see a crawl--noun by noun, adjective by adjective--of what she's thinking.") They keep Closer alive and lively, worth watching for clues even as we attend to the wit of Marber's dialogue. It's a film of cutting words and subtle sign language...
...takes the impact of another sandbag; the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim to predator; the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols flatteringly calls Roberts "the CNN of actresses: on the closeup you actually see a crawl, noun-by-noun, adjective-by-adjective, of what she's thinking.") They keep every scene rich and lively, in a film of cutting words and subtle gestures. It's also attuned to the language, and body language, of evasion - the way people lie to spare feelings, mostly their own. Some much...
...declare George W. Bush President of the United States, the policies of Bush's advisers and especially what he sees as the deflection of a quick, vigorous search-and-destroy mission against Osama bin Laden into an open-ended war on terrorism--"You can't declare war on a noun," Moore said last week--that spawned a dubious and costly invasion of Iraq...
...Overwhelmingly he uses the word ‘evil’ as a noun,” Singer said. “When you use ‘evil’ as a noun, you’re referring to it as something substantive. It’s like there’s a force out there, and we have to do something to defeat...