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...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...
...unforgettable lovers in James Cameron’s Oscar Award (R) winning epic, _________ “(name of a James Cameron Oscar Award-Winning epic), this romance between a man and his stamps was not meant to be. “You guys really missed the _________ (noun mode of transportation) on this one,” confesses Nichols, “I lost my collection last year when I was moving out of DeWolfe summer housing.” This _________ (totally excessive sympathetic adjective), life-altering loss of hobby hasn’t slowed down this _________ (concentration with poor advising...