Word: piquantes
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...material is familiar; the film buttresses its arguments from many TV and print sources, including Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud, and Moore's own best-seller Dude, Where's My Country? But Moore, a master propagandist and incorrigible entertainer, knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost his U.S. Senate seat in 2000 to a recently deceased incumbent: "Voters preferred the dead guy." He shows footage of Bush clowning at his desk in March 2003, moments before giving...
...Moore is usually the front-and-center star of his own films. Here, his presence is mostly that of narrator and guiding force, though he does make a few piquant appearances. While chatting with Unger across the street from the Saudi embassy in Washington, he is approached and quizzed by Secret Service agents. Hearing from Rep. John Conyers that no member of Congress had read the complete Patriot Act before voting for it, he hires a Mister Softee truck and patrols downtown D.C. reading the act to members of Congress over a loudspeaker. Toward the end, he tries...
...half the dialogue because it came straight from the Gospels and the earlier Jesus movies, I needed a good laugh. But I got hardly a giggle from "JCVH," the first kungfu-lesbian-horror-Mexican-wrestling musical comedy. (Could there be a second?) The premise, from screenwriter Ian Driscoll, is piquant: Jesus H. Christ joins forces with a priest to rid Ottawa of a vampire coven. He's an activist Savior ("If I'm not back in five minutes, call the Pope") who kicks beaucoup d'ass. He's closer to a standard Mel Gibson hero than to the hero...
...weirder, more daring. In a role that requires him to be both the lead and the comic relief, Depp plays the roguish coquette, sporting another of his odd British accents (as in Sleepy Hollow and From Hell). Only he could make this spiked cocktail of quirks so potent and piquant. Now Pirates could give Depp what he may never have wanted: a movie franchise...
...whole, very good indeed. Then again, at $50 a head, it should be. An amuse bouche of steak tartare atop crisply toasted crostini was brought immediately after ordering. It was the highlight of the evening. The meat was clearly of the highest quality, its richness offset by a piquant dribble of mustard and several capers. It should, perhaps, become a proper appetizer—two bites is simply not enough. Even my dining companion, an occasionally cautious eater, became an instant convert to the uncooked lifestyle...