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...Embassy has been located at Grosvenor Square through generations of pomp and changing circumstance. In 1968 it was a focal point of anti-Vietnam War protests; after the September 11 attacks, it drew ire from local residents worried it could draw terrorist bombs. Through it all, the Mayfair edifice was the site of lively parties for London's chattering classes and influential leaders passing through. All that is due to change, though, with the announcement that the U.S. Embassy plans to relocate across the Thames to a place whose very name reflects a rougher and more industrial tone: the Nine...
...King Lear in Act II: “O, reason not the need!... / Allow not nature more than nature need, / Man life’s as cheap as beast’s.” Instead, let’s look to Act III: “Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just.” In a society of ever-increasing inequality, let us show ourselves more just with a more gracious attitude to the unacknowledged citizens of our country...
...imagining Jodie Foster sort of falling for him - or at least having a wary dinner with him. This was Demme in from the fringe, operating in the mainstream - and about to lose his way with the ponderous, if well-meant, AIDS drama, Philadelphia. After that it has all been pomp and boredom - Beloved, The Manchurian Candidate, a documentary about Jimmy Carter, for heaven's sake...
...beginning, there is an attempt to incorporate political commentary into a film based around societal intrigue–but as soon as it becomes intriguing, the story reverts back to the default quibbles of the aristocratic couple, and all goes downhill from there. It’s not all pomp and circumstance, though. The acting is effective, with Keira Knightley putting in a memorable performance as Georgiana. Knightley successfully portrays the Duchess’s range of emotions from unhappiness at her three-person marriage to ecstasy in scenes involving her lover, Earl Grey. Ralph Fiennes, her philandering husband, gives...
...Some people call conventions mere pomp and pageantry, a time for the good old boys to wring hands, pat each other’s backs, and schmooze with each other before attending a superficial exercise to nominate a candidate who has already won the primaries. But that’s not what I saw. What I saw—all the way from an incredible portrait exhibit in the daytime convention center, where every issue group imaginable caucused each day, to my seat in a club space at Invesco Field—was a party comprised of incredibly varied...