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...opening act on the side stage of a music festival that featured Lynyrd Skynyrd.Crowe’s films have always demonstrated an obsession with rock music (not surprisingly, “Elizabethtown”’s soundtrack is spectacular), but here he finds beauty in the raw passion and energy of the music. The lovers’ most enduring moment, coming in the film’s magnificent final act, is not found in a romantic viewing of the sunrise over the idyllic Kentucky countryside; it’s in the climactic memorial service for Drew?...
...order to take hold of all my being” beg for fervor; Greenwald’s delivery was disappointingly lukewarm. Lacking romanticism, Greenwald’s Don José still might have made for a plausible target of Carmen’s attraction, if he had a raw machismo about him. This was not the case. The acting at cross-purposes made it difficult to subscribe to the drama that develops between their characters in the opera’s second half. Don José is called from the mountains to care for his dying mother...
...finding their weaknesses," says Azyumardi. Naivet? is also a factor. "Many of the recruits are simple village boys, and people like Nurdin can win them over with incredible speed," says Jakarta-based terrorism expert Ken Conboy. He notes that captured accomplices told police that two recent recruits were so raw that they had to be taught to drive before they could carry out missions in Jakarta and Bali...
...obvious how one would standardize grades across departments or even if one would wish to do so. But this problem is not as serious as it seems. It is quite possible that Harvard attracts more students capable of exceptional work in one field than in another, and any raw indicator of performance would necessarily reflect this. Latin and English honors could continue to signal relative performance, as they do currently, and the College could consider normalizing the GPA calculation among different fields of study if departmental grades end up particularly unbalanced...
There’s likely no way Apple will recapture the raw creativity and supple emotion of her debut; she’s grown up and her audiences have to as well. “Extraordinary Machine” proves that she has a talent for poetry even without suffering...