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...emotional exhaustion. Up in the Air, which has already been named the year's best film by the National Board of Review, takes him in a new direction, one that may be closer to his core: a self-sufficient man who doesn't want to be tied down. His Ryan Bingham is a management consultant hired by the bosses at large companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. And he does so with such ostensible sympathy that the victims often leave the interview without wanting to kill him. He's a head chopper who comes...
...primarily an issue movie, banging home its thesis on the anvil of melodrama. It's closer to a romantic comedy. Ryan finds a kindred spirit in another high-flying exec, the sultry Alex (Vera Farmiga). As she tells Ryan, "Think of me as yourself, only with a vagina." Their relationship is affectionate, lusty and unfettered--the perfect sky alliance. It's a life Ryan loves: the pampering by flight attendants, the plush anonymity of hotel rooms. What you might call loneliness, he calls self-reliance. This is threatened by a young corporate rival (Anna Kendrick), who wants to save money...
...film doesn't pass judgment on its characters; nobody's forced into redemption. And Clooney responds to this maturity with the most nuanced performance of his career. He gets inside Ryan because, in a way, he already lives there: he too is a traveling man with an aversion to commitment. Clooney has always ridden high on the confidence that people will buy anything he pitches--even a savory comedy-drama with a tart undertaste. Odds are that the great salesman's work in Up in the Air will create, among audiences and Oscar voters alike, a lot of satisfied customers...
...fourth quarter, Harvard’s defense had finally figured out Yale sophomore tailback Alex Thomas, as sophomore Sumner Webster and senior Ryan Barnes had thwarted his past two attempts. Yale was stuck at fourth and 22 on its own 25-yard line...
...much changed at the beginning of the third period, but things took a drastic turn with five minutes remaining in the game. Having yet to generate any real opportunities on net, the Clarkson attack started to threaten the Crimson goaltender, junior Ryan Carroll. Sixteen minutes into the period, Golden Knight Bryan Rufenach blasted a shot at Carroll, who deflected it with his right pad. Rufenach quickly raced through the Harvard defense to the loose puck and finished the rebound...