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...behind The Mask. Kaufman will at no point shout “smokin’!” or “somebody stop me!”—and neither, for that matter, will Carrey. Sunshine is another introverted film that makes tentative comedy of profound awkwardness, and if all Kaufman’s scripts have the feel of having been written by a man who knows his way around romantic rejection, his latest goes for the emotional jugular. A surreal, 108-minute look into a grimily futuristic process that medically excises the memory of a nasty...
...intensely driven and deeply sensitive, with an extraordinary command of language,” Sullivan says. “The moral concerns this guy had were so profound...so different from what we see today...
...report are not as ominous as they have been made out to be. The increase in graduate enrollment and master’s degrees and the 3 percent decline in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded are the results of outside factors, not some profound flaw in the public school system itself. Where state education officials denounce these figures as evidence that Massachusetts public colleges are over-emphasizing their more profitable graduate programs, the real explanation is economic. Business journals and newspapers across the country have been reporting rises in graduate school enrollment since the start...
...Kitchen Stories a doctor, examining a patient, serenely smokes a cigarette with no comment made about the matter. There are dozens of similar moments in the film, and what a pleasure it is not to be hectored by a director as we laugh our own little laughs, watching a profound story unfold. --By Richard Schickel
...touch of Kleenex Cottonelle—truly the ivory tower of TP—have been disappointed by the recent loss of this brand. In its place is Scott Surpass (also made by Kimberly-Clark), but the touch resembles that of a porcupine and puts an end to all profound thought...