Word: outerness
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...imagining that neither man could emerge from this inferno unscarred? McCain embarked on what looked very much like a kamikaze run, flying straight into the heart of Christian evangelicalism and declaring, in a speech in Virginia Beach, Va., that "neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right." And then, for good measure, a day later McCain branded G.O.P. clerics "evil" as Bush went on to sweep all three Tuesday...
...other words, he's the nerd from outer space. But Shandling--also one of the film's several writers--is not enough of an actor to make him a sympathetic one. Harold does not live life; he comments on it. And that plays into director Mike Nichols' supercilious side. The producers have employed good comic actors, among them Annette Bening, John Goodman and Greg Kinnear, in an effort to take the chill off. But most of the women Harold encounters are unfunnily damaged--timorous or frigid, frenzied or alcoholic--while the men are sexist, henpecked or just clueless...
...train of dreamers. Barreling through the desert, they come in search of the cheap thrill, the easy score, the fast women, the sugar daddies. On their final approach, they can already begin to make out the pale halo of the city's lights--lights that can be seen from outer orbit, against the dark face of a planet couched in the shadow of night. They make their way down to the strip and all around the city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with bags of mob money and later rebuilt with...
...taxi what there is to do and you'll hear Hard Rock Caf, Nike Store. I mean San Francisco even is getting that way. Manhattan is too expensive and it's impossible to live cheaply. It's lost its vibe. I guess that energy has moved to the outer boroughs but it's just...
...said the painting's outer layers were likely painted by one of del Sarto's assistants, while the master etched the figures beneath...