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...Life,” Pat Allen (Patricia Clarkson, “Pieces of April”) tells her husband Harry (Chris Cooper, “American Beauty”) that “love is sex.” Pat and Harry are a middle-aged couple in a rut living in the 1940s. Unlike his wife, Harry is a sentimentalist who has loftier notions of love. He tells his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan, “Die Another Day”), “I always dreamed of a woman being truly in love with...
...from landlocked, lumpy Iowa draws more than a little ire. The same lament comes up over seared ahi again and again, from the Hamptons to La Jolla: Why should a few pig farmers decide who gets to be president? I, suburbanite, felt myself slipping last week into precisely this rut as I watched a man in plaid saying, yes, he planned to caucus, as long as he could catch a bowl game around noon. This fellow, to whom circumstance had bequeathed great decisive power, was prepared to allow one among a plethora of meaningless college football tournaments (who even wants...
...scores. Moreover, the Crimson offensive attack was off the mark for most of the night. “We weren’t crashing for rebounds and placing shots as well as we could have,” Cahow said. Another factor in Harvard’s four-year rut versus UNH has been the team’s comfort, or lack thereof, playing on the Wildcats’ Olympic-sized rink at the Whittemore Center. At 200 by 100 feet, the rink is one of only six Olympic-sized rinks in the nation and caters well to UNH?...
...release new music, [to] try different things and different formats. And he wanted to graze, to try this idea of doing dramatic music. I've always been up for something that was a little different - just keep turning the earth over, so you don't dig yourself a rut and furnish it, you know what I mean? That's how we got together...
...alienated tone. As the band disinterestedly shifts from lazy funk to Radiohead’s electronic quaver, Morrison’s bored vocals are an emotional dead weight: “How can a body move the speed of light / And still find itself in such a rut?” On “Gyroscope,” the band jerks along through the first verse, negotiating frequent time changes. Jason Caddell’s guitar and Joe Easley’s drums move quickly but not really forward; they awkwardly try to keep their balance. Morrison sing-speaks...