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...restraint, he’s surprisingly credible. It may be Ocean’s crew in name, but the individual characters, deliberately stereotyped, frequently steal scenes from the stars. Roberts—appearing uncharacteristically un-attractive—may have top-billing, but she is merely an ornament to the plot; the outlaw band provides the real fun. Reiner’s Saul captures the weary, seasoned older guard while young upstart Mormon brothers Virgil and Turk Malloy (Casey Affleck and Scott Caan respectively) bicker constantly throughout and serve as comic foils to the rest of the crew. They...
...rationales for the Great War. What the new age demanded was that the appearance of any building conform to the trusty realities that construction might dictate. Those were usually flat roofs, exposed structural elements and sheet glass--a material loved for its associations with transparency and honesty. Mies called ornament "macaroni." He didn't mean it fondly...
...hard money, where the G.O.P. still holds a big advantage. Some Democrats approached McConnell quietly, he told TIME, with private pleas to "stop this from happening" and "pull some rabbit out of the hat one more time." Wellstone's amendment was the ticket. "I viewed it as another unconstitutional ornament we could put on this tree," McConnell says. "I was trying to get as many problems into the bill I could, so that if we ended up in court, we had a target-rich environment." He went to colleagues and said, "This is grotesquely unconstitutional. Please vote...
...conquering the music world with either their charisma or flare (think Madonna), their unique sound (think Rolling Stones), or a combination of both (the king of pop, Michael Jackson). Mirwais fails to fall into any of these categories, despite his best attempts; he even sports some bizarre wire facial ornament on the cover of the album. If he’s attempting to make a statement, he fails, unless the statement is “I’m a Borg.” And someone please tell him to keep that jacket closed, for goodness’ sake...
...hard money, where the GOP still holds a big advantage. Some Democrats approached McConnell quietly, he told TIME, with private pleas to "stop this from happening" and "pull some rabbit out of the hat one more time." Wellstone's amendment was the ticket. "I viewed it as another unconstitutional ornament we could put on this tree," McConnell says. "I was trying to get as many problems into the bill I could, so that if we ended up in court, we had a target-rich environment." He went to colleagues and said, "This is grotesquely unconstitutional. Please vote...