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...Harry Potter we meet in Phoenix is a darker, more volatile Harry, and it's not just adolescent petulance. Harry is showing the mental scars of having been hunted and harried for four straight years, and the rage and fear he feels will strike a chord with any reader, adult or child. "You don't know what it's like!" he shrieks at Ron and Hermione. "You--neither of you--you've never had to face him, have you?" No, they don't know what it's like...
...Valuable opportunities for socializing expand, and intellectually-interesting experimentation with radical queerness grows, yet the space at Harvard College for LGBT students and supporters to participate in non-radical political activism seems to be shrinking. We engage in petty internecine turf wars while real battles rage in the world beyond the gates, beyond the protection of a largely-liberal environment and generous non-discrimination regulations. Our rights ride on the outcome of these battles. Our help, or our inaction, could help to turn the tide. But it seems we are being...
...Hulk character could be Chopper Read's mild-mannered cousin, a mess of rage and repression. Understand that Bana does not play the Hulk, that mean green machine. He is Bruce Banner, the sweet, troubled scientist who, when his anger starts to bubble, hands the heavy lifting, mauling and rock smashing to a computer-generated, volatile giant. (Think Shrek, off his meds.) Bana's Banner is a Clark Kent who never gets to be Superman - which means the actor had to Act. "He exists on his own as a confused, complicated character," says Bana. "Ang basically said, ?There's light...
...water to crash-land on the upper deck of the bad guy's yacht. 2F2F has a bit of plot about an ex-cop (Paul Walker) enlisting an old pal (Tyrese) to foil a drug lord. But it pays off as a thrill-delivery system, a convoy of road rage and carnage. It reminds you of what movies are: motion pictures. Speed is of the essence...
...lacks the messiness of reality, and as a result it feels smaller than life, like a nifty short story spun out to feature length, a tragedy staged in a shoebox. It's the difference between cute and beautiful. What The Dogs of Babel lacks is the raw, sobbing rage that powered The Lovely Bones, that left it with ragged edges, that made it howl and that made it great--and that left readers, reviewers and editors alike blinking back shocked tears, shaking our heads and wondering, How the hell did she do that? --By Lev Grossman