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...Wilds of Morris Township,” a story that reproduces an extensive passage from the recollections of a mid-nineteenth-century relative known as Big Rob. He and two male cousins set out to “try their fortunes” in unsettled territory, and Rob??s practical but detailed description of the three men’s attempts to set up a household is full of the appealing roughness of the frontier. After the cousins bring in the rest of their relatives, it’s only a short time until the story catches...
...which he and the creative talent make a poor effort to emulate here: Rob is whiny and angsty and lives in Brooklyn; he might as well have AIDS. Chase’s voice and stage presence is entirely generic, but the writers render him impotent by lobbing off Rob??s most important lines. Never once does Rob utter the underlying philosophy of Hornby’s work: “Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music...
Most appalling of all is that the second half of the book and movie’s plot—Rob??s revisiting of his top five, all-time, desert island breakups—is condensed into one weak scene and approximately 30 seconds of musical interlude, during a song sung by the apparition of Bruce Springsteen. Hornby meditates on the nature of male self-centeredness and inability to grow up; Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green’s score simply lulls the audience into a bored stupor. (Quite literally, my date for the evening fell asleep before...
...lyricist rhymes “them” with “them” within the first 20 seconds of the first song. During Laura’s supposedly poignant breakup ballad, “The Things We Could Have Been,” she compares her and Rob??s problems to “an elephant that won’t leave the room.” These songs will fall flat for both fans of Rob??s style of music and those who think—incorrectly—that the band Belle...
...Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me,” an epic replete with stings, wails and a two-minute intro of sparse piano under the sounds of an angry mob that stands as perhaps the saddest thing I have ever heard in my life. To be fair, this one made Rob??s list...