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...Waiting for Sale, Richmond Virginia (1861), is less overt in its condemnation of the trade. Composed from a sketch of a real slave market, it shows neatly dressed women and children sitting on a bench. The normality of the scene - one of the women is even smiling - packs a punch. A contemporary critic claimed "the appalling guilt of that accursed system was never more successfully depicted." However progressive that message may have seemed at the time, the picture portrays its black subjects in circumstances viewers then and now would expect. These assumptions are challenged, however, by the show's introductory...
...embarrassing it must be for club members to all be wearing the same tie. 3. Don’t mention your interest in supporting after-school volunteering programs, homeless shelters, and cancer research. Do mention your interest in “pussy.” 4. If a punch event involves taking a boat somewhere, don’t get so drunk you pass out and fall off the back of the boat. This is how people end up in the Owl. 5. If your name is Hornblower, don’t worry. You?...
...film moves from fight to fight, strung together with several vague and unsatisfying storylines, as Matt becomes more and more involved in his new way of life. He goes from barely being able to throw a punch (a state of affairs for the puny Wood that is somewhat more convincing than his later role as an expert brawler) to masterminding some of the firm’s more impressive exploits...
You’re hoping that he’ll go totally batshit, because most people can’t actually punch in faces left and right. Lyrical gymnastics and hot beats are here in abundance, but sometimes the street-slick Def Jux machine stifles too much of the high-pitched rapper who used to trigger nightmares...
...know, “Saving Private Ryan” was a pretty good movie, but it would have really packed an emotional punch if the Normandy beach scenes were backed by whiny, overblown emo-rock about “All the things that you never ever told me/And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt...