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Sometimes this effect works nicely, especially in a scene where Medea flinches at Jason's touch; the abstracted, impersonal movements of the characters up to this point render this contact all the more frightening. But usually the mechanical, showy movements just make the actors seem stilted and vaguely uncomfortable...
...around harrumphing that it's amateur night. That those out celebrating the millennium are no doubt the very same people who can't even spell it. (Two Ls, two Ns.) You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand, CNN says Twenty Hundred. Then you can fall asleep counting millennial...
...landscape of Australia is a predominant theme in Wallace-Crabbe's poetry, both as an object of beauty in itself and as a mirror of human emotion and thought. As Wallace-Crabbe explained, his poetry attempts to "render the nature of consciousness in tangible images." In his poem "Mind," for example, the inner conflict of the mind is reflected in the speaker's surrounding in the Australian bush...
People who use other people don't always know that they're using them. So says Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan in his handsome, quirky comedy THE ADJUSTER. Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is one such user, an insurance claims adjuster whose sensitivity to his clients' suffering extends to having sex with nearly all of them, from frowsy couples to purring studs to a burnt-out stunner (the lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things...
Rudenstine stressed certain unusual phrases in the traditional speech that would render the law students graduates. He urged the students to "aid in the shaping and application of those Wise restraints that make us free...