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...glum, frozen characters were even father removed from Hollywood cinema. The traditional movie hero was an action figure; the Antonioni antihero is inactive, passive, empty. Rich and pretty, he shows how meaningless it is to be a man of means. He in incapacitated by wealth, status and the availability of sex with good-looking people of the opposite sex. The advantages that the world's poor could only dream of have paralyzed...
...Some actors slipped the confines. Delon, who at this early stage in his career often exuded a feline passivity, is a live wire in Eclipse, where he plays a stock market trader who catches the attention of Vittoria (Vitti), who has just broken up with her rich boyfriend. During the frenetic bidding or in a cafe afterward, Delon is constantly on the move, going nowhere fast, and Antonioni gives him a long leash to display his ruthlessness and his boyish charm...
...stand a little rain," said Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek at a briefing, "What we can't stand is lightning." He said, however, that wind may be an additional problem because the remains of the bridge remain unstable. There were also "power line issues" upriver. Recovery efforts continued despite the weather and the poor visibility...
...other words, they may have danced together and possibly canoodled chastely in the woods, but there is no evidence that they attempted to run away together. Or that his rich uncle or her rich neighbors cruelly tried to sunder their relationship. Or that?. But it may not matter. Austen has become, in recent years, a kind of movie franchise, in some ways not unlike Harry Potter - except, of course, for a much more limited and self-consciously literary audience. With the exception of the rambunctious and highly cinematic Emma Thompson-Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility of a dozen years...
...Because Harvard is so big, rich, and well-known, it tends to be a little more risk averse, and it’s hard to do things and complicated to make things happen,” he said. “Part of what appeals to me about the University of the Arts is that’s I’ll have the opportunity to make change in a different...