Word: paces
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There are other problems, too. You can enjoy fast-track dialogue in television shows like Murphy Brown, because a well-written sitcom requires only 22 minutes of your time, not enough to make you weary of the rattling pace. But a movie, running a couple of hours, requires more breathing room - time to savor characters, time to let the knotty situations grow more enticingly tangled, time to enjoy a laugh if any of them are on offer. The constant hammering and yammering of this movie drives you out of involvement with its women. And then there's that perfume girl...
Luckily, it lasts only 10 minutes, and then we're inside, and Gervais proves to be the best person in the world to go to a museum with. He has a shocking knowledge of art history, gets swoony over tiny details and moves at a reasonable pace, which is to say very quickly. And yes, he makes fun of paintings. The one where the Virgin Mary has her fingers outstretched? "She's talking 'bout the bloke she met last night," he says. He barely looks at a depiction of plump martyr St. Andrew as we pass. "That cross," Gervais says...
...University’s counter-offer was a generous offer.”“Harvard never wants to lose its good young senior faculty, and certainly not its excellent women,” Rosenblum said.While Martin said she enjoyed Harvard’s fast pace early in her career, Martin said that she is looking forward to settling down in Madison.“It’s still a fantastic department,” she said of the political science program at Wisconsin, “but it still doesn’t have that sense...
...season on the losing end of a shutout in the season opener against Sacred Heart University, dropping three straight games to the Pioneers (4-3) in the Pitt Center on Sunday. Although the Crimson (0-1) failed to capture a set, the women’s squad kept pace with its opponent throughout most of its first game. “At end of day they were more consistent then we were,” junior co-captain Katherine Kocurek said. “We had a lot of fight and a bit more diversity than [the Pioneers...
...pace to hit goal," says Jason Green, a 27-year-old Gaithersburg, Md., native who is Obama's national voter registration director. "I would love to exceed goal." Green, not surprisingly, isn't in the mood to get specific about what that goal is, though he does say that it is "in the millions," and that the bulk of the voters will be in the 18 battleground states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado and New Mexico (though drives have been mounted in all 50 states). Green is also happy to share the news that they registered more...