Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mexico, Clinton tried hitting back, rebutting Dole's criticisms and calling him hypocritical. But everyone could see it didn't work, so Penn proposed a strategy of benign neglect: "Clinton Soars, Dole Whines." Answer attacks when you must, he told Clinton, but end each answer with a short upbeat phrase, like, "I want to build that bridge...
...Patient is up there with Hana. Minghella, a British playwright whose first film (Truly Madly Deeply) was also about love beyond death, gives care to the segue of image and sound from one scene to the next, to the performers' intonations and gazes, to snatches of dialogue--say, a phrase as glancing as "Yes. Absolutely"--that may echo an hour later to haunt the characters...
...film is, in an old phrase, beyond gorgeous: a feast whose splendor serves Almasy complex passions. The cast is superb: Binoche, with her thin, seraphic smile; Scott Thomas, aware of the spell she casts but not flaunting it; Fiennes, especially, radiating sexy mystery, threat shrouded in hauteur. Doom and drive rarely have so much stately star quality...
...also knew that the riflery counselor, an ex-Marine named Leigh and a genuinely cool guy, was a member of the NRA. (Though even in my naivete I was a bit disturbed by his tendency to wear a T-shirt adorned with a picture of an Uzi and the phrase, "Peace through superior firepower...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "For those insistent upon 'separation of church and state,' a phrase that doesn't appear in my copy of the Constitution, just which commandment is so offensive that the entire list must be banned from government property...