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...gladhander preening for TV crews while ignoring the plaints of a recently widowed friend. Pythonite John Cleese, on the radio show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again mocked Frost's standard introduction by braying, "'Hello, good evening and welcome." In Frost/Nixon two people greet him with that phrase. Frost murmurs, "Actually I don't say that...
...characterization and emotional investment for big-screen ambition. They’re movies with heart and soul; they don’t just play connect-the-dots. While Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine is a psychologically complex leading man, Jackman’s Drover just repeats the phrase “No man hires me, no man fires me,” over and over again. Perhaps the problems with “Australia” wouldn’t be so noticeable if the movie weren’t so self-aware. Just...
...lounge. Ja’mie comments “Oh my god, public schools are so random!” and talks about “public school sluts.” And Jonah makes extensive use of the word “homo” and the phrase “fuck you, Miss!”While many scenes in the show play out in a way reminiscent of the awkwardness of “The Office” or a Christopher Guest film, the show crosses myriad lines on the less policed airwaves of HBO. Ja?...
When the Americans leave: over more than five years, that phrase has cropped up in most of my conversations in Iraq. First spoken in hope, then inevitability, it is now uttered with a sense of urgency--and among some, alarm. Under the terms of the status-of-forces agreement ratified on Nov. 27 by the Iraqi parliament, U.S. troops must leave no later than the end of 2011; a referendum next summer could bring that deadline even closer. As the drawdown gathers speed, it will diminish the U.S.'s ability to influence Iraqi affairs. "Very soon, we will no longer...
...George Docherty, 97, was a pastor whose 1954 sermon before President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually led to the insertion of the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance. Docherty said the words applied to Christians, Jews and Muslims. Atheists, on the other hand, "fall short of the American ideal of life...