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...minimalist documentary style, while ostensibly unassuming, is as intense as the Gouldian world it unfolds for us on the screen. The film's fragments wrap us up and then just as quickly unwind--the detached psychological probing is as disorienting as it is seductive. Pain, passion and the just plain weird are glimpsed and strangely haunt the blurry liminal spaces between art and life...
...case at hand, the people to whom the authority was delegated just plain blew it, and have managed to alienate the faculty in addition," he writes...
Household names on the marquee do not, of course, guarantee dramatic splendor inside. The Branagh play is a trifle that searches for nightmare poetry in "plain old American-Irish English" and for political significance in the story of a Belfast punk (Paul Ronan) obsessed by the grit and grace of Jimmy Cagney. It finds none of the above, lost as it is in a muddle of moralizing and attitudinizing. But it shares a potent theme with the season's cannier off-Broadway ventures: that star worship is a virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone...
...bracing about such creatures, especially when no whiny attempts are made to justify their malignity. The grace that redeems a wretch like Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) in The Last Seduction is her breathtaking lack of hypocrisy. She's economic woman on an intricate and divinely sociopathic rampage. She just plain wants the money she steals from her husband (Bill Pullman), who obtained it in a drug deal that she had urged on him. She just plain needs to create a new life so she can hide from his wrath. And she just plain must enlist simple Mike Swale (Peter Berg...
...clear last week, however, that the companies maneuvering for position in the upcoming PCS auction had a much more mundane use in mind. Each major bidder, for its own reason, was focused on what is known in the business as pots -- plain old telephone service, or in this case, plain old wireless telephone service. The Baby Bells want to use wireless PCS phones to extend their reach outside their local regions. The long-distance carriers want to use them to connect to customers without having to pay monopoly rates (45 cents on every dollar) to the Baby Bells...