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...strolls toward her distinguished destiny. Meantime, spies and assassins scuttle through the corridors of power, the torture chambers are booked solid for the foreseeable future and Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett, playing a woman 17 years her senior) allows herself to be smitten by Raleigh (the internationally cuddlesome Clive Owen...
...stuff of great movies - all mutterings in the shadows about geopolitical issues that the screenwriters, William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, prefer not to go into. That leaves Kapur with the Elizabeth-Raleigh thing, which is, truth to tell, no more than a flirtation without a fruition. Blanchett and Owen do what they can with it - she is alternately coy and bawdy; he is blunt, refreshingly lacking in courtly wiles and drawn to one of her ladies in waiting (the winsome Abbie Cornish) - which is not very much...
...goes throughout Elizabeth. Wit might have animated it. Or authentic passion. Or a certain imperiousness in Blanchett's playing, a certain dangerousness in Owen's. But the movie wants to see them as more modern figures - earnest, good-natured, embryonic democrats. Elizabeth, as a number of movies have proved over the decades, was a great historical figure but not a great dramatic one. The historical Queen undoubtedly had tolerant and democratic impulses of the kind that are imputed to her here. But she was also a canny, hidden and manipulative monarch, not given to broad, emotionally riveting gestures. I suppose...
...unpleasant—but the album works best as background music. Some of the songs feature slightly different elements, like the Celtic drums of “Guyamas Sonora,” or the jazzy piano line throughout “In the Mausoleum.” However, hearing Owen Pallett (who also wrote the album’s string arrangements and records on his own under the moniker of Final Fantasy) sing on “Cliquot” is a lovely surprise, despite the omnipresent accordion. The track sounds more like the classically inflected pop found...
...observations in astronomy, it’s kind of like a time machine,” Hernquist said. “The more sensitive a telescope, the farther back in time we can look.” Another inductee, Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History Roger Owen is working on a book that will compare Middle Eastern globalization at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries. Owen was humble about his work. “Scientists are inventing things,” he said. “Historians are just writing books...